Ahir Shah
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
Press clippings
Edinburgh festival 2025: 20 golden comedy shows to see this summer
Desiree Burch returns, Bridget Christie drops in and Toussaint Douglass flies while Joe Kent-Walters goes beyond the grave and Jazz Emu has a midlife crisis.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 30th June 2025Jimmy Carr hosts Netflix series The Big Pitch
Netflix is publishing The Big Pitch With Jimmy Carr, a podcast and YouTube series in which the stand-up star gets comedians to suggest movie ideas to him.
British Comedy Guide, 28th May 2025Ahir Shah, Flo & Joan, and Olga Koch up for Melbourne Comedy Award
Shah is nominated for his show Ends, which won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2023, while Olga Koch Comes From Money and One Man Musical debuted at last year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Chortle, 16th April 2025Ahir Shah and the mysterious case of his fake mum and dad
Ahir Shah has revealed that a couple pretended to be his parents in order to sneak into his sold-out show at the Leicester Comedy Festival.
British Comedy Guide, 17th February 2025Soho Theatre Walthamstow to offer comedy from May 2025
Soho Theatre's new 960-seat Walthamstow venue will open in May 2025. Its comedy programme will include Dara O Briain, Sarah Keyworth, Mark Watson, Ahir Shah, Suzi Ruffell and Josie Long.
British Comedy Guide, 28th January 2025Brits heading to the 2025 Melbourne comedy festival
The line-up has been announced for next year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival, with a number of British-based comics heading down under.
Chortle, 9th December 2024Ahir Shah's Seven Blunders Of The World comes to Radio 4
Ahir Shah is returning to his Gujarati roots for his debut Radio 4 comedy series, Ahir Shah's Seven Blunders Of The World, exploring the seven "social sins" that Mahatma Gandhi believed were responsible for the world's ills.
British Comedy Guide, 21st November 2024Brown Sauce and Tara Theatre reveal inaugural Comedy Lab cohort
Iman Ahmedani, Qasim Akhtar, Jas Bahia, Nusrath Tapadar, Dipak Patel, Paras Patel, Joeravar Sangha and Stuti Johri will take part in The Comedy Lab, a workshop and showcase event for South Asian unsigned comedy rising stars.
British Comedy Guide, 4th October 2024Ahir Shah: Ends review
The British comedian's show Ends went from a tiny basement at Edinburgh Festival to landing its top award - and now it is on Netflix. It's easy to see why.
Tyson Wray, The Guardian, 12th September 2024Ahir Shah: 'The idea that British tolerance was linked to the EU is nonsense'
One of the brightest stars of UK stand-up talks about Rishi Sunak, racist heckling and why he now feels upbeat about the future.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 10th September 2024