Biography

Shazia Mirza is a very funny award winning British Asian stand up Comedian from Birmingham England.

She works all over the world and has toured the US, Sweden, Denmark, France Holland and Germany. She has appeared on CBS 60 Minutes, NBC's Last Comic Standing, and Have I got News for You (BBC).

Shazia could have married a rich man and lived in a mansion on The Bishops Avenue, with servants, bidets, and horses. But instead she chose to drive up and down the country for as little as ten pounds, staying in dirty lurid bed and breakfasts trying to make people laugh.She thought of giving up, but no Muslim man wants to marry her, now that's she's dabbled in jokes and fingered a few white men on the 38 bus.

"Her laconic one-liners represent something quite unique in modern comedy."
William Cook, The Guardian

  • Winner Columnist of the Year PPA Awards 2008
  • Semi-finalist NBC's Last Comic Standing 2008
  • Winner GG2 Young Achiever of the Year Award 2003
  • Winner Metro Magazines in association with Jongleurs Comedy Clubs People's Choice Best Comic Award 2002
  • Winner London Comedy Festival and Hackney Empire 2001
  • Runner Up Birmingham Comedy Festival 2001

Television

  • Muslim Driving School (Voiceover BBC2 2010)
  • Beautiful People (BBC2 2009)
  • Last Comic Standing (NBC 2008)
  • Splitting Cells -Broadcast sitcom pilot (BBC3 2007)
  • F**K off I'm a Hairy Woman (BBC3 2007)
  • Richard and Judy ( Channel 4 roving reporter 2007)
  • 28 Acts in 28 Minutes (BBC3 2005)
  • The World Stands Up (Paramount Comedy 2004)
  • Stockholm Live (TV2 Sweden 2004)
  • 60 Minutes (CBS 2004)
  • Have I got News for You (BBC1)

Radio

  • The Now Show (BBC Radio 4 2009)         
  • Between Ourselves (BBC Radio 4 2009)     
  • The Fred MacAulay Show (BBC Radio Scotland 2008, 2009)
  • The Janice Forsyth Show (BBC Radio Scotland 2008)
  • Women's Hour (BBC Radio 4 2007)
  • With Great Pleasure (BBC Radio 4 2005)

Live

  • Pakistan- World Performing Arts Festival (2008)
  • 'Fun'-National Tour (2007)
  • USA- San Francisco Herbst Theatre (2007)
  • Switzerland- Arosa Comedy Festival (2007)
  • India- Tour (2006)
  • Sweden- National Tour (2006)
  • Canada- Winnipeg Comedy Festival (CBC 2005)
  • Holland- National Tour (2005)
  • Canada- Halifax Comedy Festival (CBC 2004)
  • Sweden- National Tour (2004)

  • Also performed in Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Paris, Kosovo, Dubai, Luxembourg

Theatre

  • 1001 Nights Now (2005- 2006) The National Theatre Tour. Produced by Northern Stage. Directed by Alan Lyddiard
  • Vagina Monologues (2003) The Royal Albert Hall. Directed by Eve Ensler
  • The Tribe of Beorma (2000- 2001) Women and Theatre Tour. Directed by Janice Connolly

 

 

"Warm, bubbly with a refreshing confidence.... and no shortage of gags"
Metro

"Very funny...This woman knows how to grab and keep control of a room"
ScotsGay ****

"A relaxed beaming comedian who has the crowd in stitches"

The List ****

"Mirza performs with a distinct comedy voice that should put other comics to shame. She's breaking taboos, material which becomes endearing, fun and goddamn hilarious in her hands."
Three Weeks ****


"Is Shazia Mirza bound for the If.Comedy shortlist?
And yet if one joke most deftly reflects the moment it's her joke..."
The Telegraph

"Shazia is a clever writer and performer with a volume of funny observational material"
One4Review.com ****

"Calm, confident, challenging and always with original material"
The Evening Standard

"Guarantees an audience with her biting deadpan observations"
The New York Times

"In that global menagerie of Comedy Mirza is that rarest of rare creatures. Mirza is a proven draw"
The New York Times

"Doing great routines she is breaking new ground"
Mark Thomas

"Sticks the knife into political correctness with hilarious effect. A must see."
Atitude Magazine

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