India, April 8 --  An emotional and candid return on YouTube sees Samay Raina reflecting on anxiety, legal trouble and the near collapse of his big‑ticket tour, as he reclaims his voice after a stormy controversy.

Stand‑up comedian Samay Raina has returned to the spotlight with his new comedy special, Still Alive, released on April 7, 2026, on YouTube. In this deeply personal show, Raina revisits the turbulence he faced after India's Got Latent controversy last year, not just as a public spectacle but as a mental and emotional struggle he had to survive.

This fresh chapter arrives more than a year after his popular digital variety show India's Got Latent (IGL) was taken offline amid a fierce backlash in early 2025 over a ...