Abdullah Afzal

  • Actor

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Graeme Garden wins Lifetime Achievement Award at BBC Audio Awards

The winners at the BBC Audio Drama Awards include Graeme Garden, Sarah Keyworth, Where To, Mate?, Trust, Mark Heap and Cracking.

British Comedy Guide, 25th March 2024

BBC Audio Awards 2024 nominees

Call Jonathan Pie, Kat Sadler's Screen Time, Michael Spicer: Before Next Door, Mockery Manor, She Stoops To Conquer and Where To, Mate? are amongst the nominees for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2024.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd December 2023

Comedians run London marathon - results

A number of comedians have run the London Marathon today. Helen Duff was fastest with 3:47:25.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th April 2019

Muslim comedy show is touring the UK

Muslims are rarely given mainstream spaces to speak about their experiences, much less make a joke out of it. But a comedy show, led by charity 'Penny Appeal' is changing that. Introducing esteemed and up and coming artists, the Super Muslim Comedy show is touring the UK with a number of talented acts from home and away.

Faima Bakar, Metro, 16th October 2018

Make 'em laugh: Manchester's comedy greats remembered

The performers who put the city on the map for comedy and entertainment from the 1950s to the present day.

Henry Hochland, Manchester Evening News, 21st June 2017

Abdullah Afzal spills the beans on the wedding episode

The Manchester actor is getting married next year too so he can sympathise with Amjad and Shazia.

Emily Heward, Manchester Evening News, 11th December 2014

BBC Asian Network announces comedy night

On Friday 7 February in London, the station's Breakfast show presenter, Tommy Sandhu hosts an exciting line-up of performers including home-grown rising stars like Abdullah Afzal (Citizen Khan) who makes his stand-up debut; the master of "twerking" Mawaan Rizwan; BBC New Comedy finalist Tez Ilyas, impressionist Anil Desai and critically acclaimed Romesh Ranganathan.

Asian Image, 21st January 2014

The young, feckless admin team who work in the post room of a firm of lawyers is the setting for a not particularly original new comedy series. Revelling in the mundane and the useless seems to be the staple of comedy shows these days. Nevertheless Lunch Monkeys does have its moments. These mainly involve new girl Shelley (Rachel Rae), libidinous solicitor Charlie (Steve John Shepherd) and the dim-witted Asif (Abdullah Afzal). Nigel Havers stars as a partner but looks rather out of place. In this first episode, Kenny (Christian Foster) tries to ask Tania (Jessica Hall) out on a date.

Simon Horsford, The Telegraph, 10th September 2009

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