He won the title of "The King of Comedy" in its spin-off show The Great Indian Laughter Challenge – Champions.

[1] He worked as an actor and comedian in the Bollywood movie Aamdani Atthanni Kharcha Rupaiya.

[5] In 2005, he ventured into stand-up comedy with the talent show The Great Indian Laughter Challenge and finished as second runner-up.

Then he took part in its spin-off, The Great Indian Laughter Challenge – Champions, and won the title of "The King of Comedy".

[1] Srivastav participated in Bigg Boss (Hindi season 3), the Indian counterpart of the Big Brother.

[8] In 2013, Raju along with his wife participated in Nach Baliye season 6, which is a couples dance show on StarPlus.

[14] Within days of leaving SP, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on 19 March 2014.

[16] In 2014, he was appointed by the BJP led Union government as the brand ambassador of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and had recorded advertisements for the campaign.

[17][10] In 2018, Srivastav disclosed on social media that he would get the chance to contest in the 2019 Indian general election as BJP candidate for Lok Sabha, although that did not materialize.

[26] On 10 August 2022, while running on the treadmill in the gym, Raju Srivastav complained of chest pain and suffered a cardiac arrest.

[33] Prolific figures including Narendra Modi, Yogi Adityanath, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Vivek Agnihotri, Rajpal Yadav and others expressed their condolences over Shrivastav's death.