Man Like Mobeen
- TV sitcom
- BBC Three
- 2016 - 2023
- 18 episodes (4 series)
Sitcom starring Guz Khan as a man looking after his younger sister in Small Heath. Also features Duaa Karim, Tez Ilyas, Tolulope Ogunmefun, Perry Fitzpatrick, Mark Silcox and Art Malik
- Due to return for Series 5
- Series 3, Episode 4 repeated Tuesday at 10:45pm on BBC3
Press clippings Page 5
Are UK sitcoms too sentimental?
The current crop of British comedies are peppered with 'hugging and learning', but how far can convivial comedy go before it veers into sentimental mush.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 27th April 2018Man Like Mobeen: BBC comedy defies Muslim stereotypes
Comedy has the power to reflect or to challenge mainstream values. Laughing at difference or "otherness" can reinforce damaging social norms, while shared laughter at a flawed or failed system tends to work more subversively. The new BBC comedy, Man Like Mobeen, is a subversive comedy that implicitly challenges ways in which British Muslims have often been badly represented through lazy caricature and stereotyping - as in the terrorist, the submissive hijabi, or the interfering Auntie.
Sarah Ilott, The Conversation, 31st January 2018Guz Khan: 'Citizen Khan reminds me of On the Buses'
BBC's subversive new comedy avoids TV stereotypes and parodies racial profiling .
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 9th January 2018Guz Khan on faith, family and packing in teaching
We spoke to Guz about faith, family, and why he was sick of marking homework.
Sarah Deen, Metro, 21st December 2017I talk to: Guz Khan
For years, Guz Khan was a school teacher but he's now a full-time comedian who after a successful pilot last year, has been given a full series of Man Like Mobeen on BBC Three.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 15th December 2017Man Like Mobeen -- exceptionally funny character comedy
Guz Khan stars as a Muslim man trying to shake off suspicions of terrorism in the BBC series.
Harriet Fitch Little, The Financial Times, 15th December 2017Full series for Man Like Mobeen
A full series of 2016 BBC Comedy Feeds pilot Man Like Mobeen has been ordered by BBC Three.
British Comedy Guide, 24th August 2017Comedy Feeds: Man Like Mobeen review
Man Like Mobeen starts imposingly, with Guz Khan's alter-ego delivering a direct-to-camera missive about the 'neo-conservatives' illegal war' on brown people as a voiceover reiterates the views of Fox News terrorism 'expert' Steven Emerson that Birmingham was a 'no-go' city for non-Muslims, patrolled by religious police. But it quickly becomes clear this is a silly mockery not only of the rhetoric of cultures at loggerheads, but also of the Muslim rude-boy culture.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 7th September 2016BBC Three reveals 2016 Comedy Feeds
BBC Three has announced six Comedy Feeds pilots: A Brief History Of Tim, Fail, Limbo, Man Like Mobeen, Pumped and The JPD3 Show.
British Comedy Guide, 12th August 2016