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Shazia Mirza

March 2024

  • Comedy Queens with Mirza second right.

    ‘We’re the Muslim Spice Girls!’ Shazia Mirza on finding box office gold with her halal comedy supergroup

    After years as the only Muslim woman on the comedy circuit, the standup is now making history with a female touring troupe. She relives the attacks she faced on the way, from ‘letterbox’ burqa taunts to Isis allegations

June 2022

  • Shazia Mirza

    The Q&A
    Shazia Mirza: ‘When I was eight, my mother said, “You are ugly, and ugly girls can’t become actresses”’

    The standup comedian on claiming she had Covid to get out of a gig, the thrill of shoplifting and her crush on Tony Blair

November 2017

  • Billy Connolly.

    Billy Connolly at 75: Eddie Izzard, Armando Iannucci and more salute 'Beatles of comedy'

  • Shazia Mirza

    The funniest thing
    Shazia Mirza: ‘My local rabbi is funnier than most standups’

October 2017

  • Comedians Phil Wang, Sara Pascoe and Liam Williams

    'So the universe implodes – no matter': comedians share their best one-liners

    In Steve Best’s new book Joker Face, standups pick some of the funniest gags they’ve told. Here are 10 of our favourites

January 2017

  • LEON EDLER leillo for REVIEW 170107 Funny books green cover option

    'I fell out of bed laughing': writers on their favourite funny book

    Nina Stibbe, David Nicholls, Bridget Christie and others reveal the books that made them laugh the most

December 2015

  • Brian Logan

    Open mic
    The comedy trends of 2015: nostalgia, oversharing and new-school mimes

    Brian Logan
    From newfound political awareness to the resurgence of mime, 2015’s comedy landscape was bumpy but invigorating

October 2015

  • Brian Logan

    Open mic
    Send in the frowns: is this the age of the serious standup?

    Brian Logan
    A New York Times article suggests that ‘public truth-telling has become the responsibility of comedians’. For evidence, look to Tig Notaro, Bridget Christie and Shazia Mirza

September 2015

  • Shazia Mirza

    Shazia Mirza review – scattergun thinking defuses the shock tactics

    There are laughs to be had in Mirza’s passionate, taboo-busting comedy but she’s let down by duff puns and an aversion to logical argument

August 2015

  • Shazia Mirza performing in 2011

    Shazia Mirza: 'Look at me – Isis would stone me to death'

    The Muslim comic received prizes and hate mail for her dark humour in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. She talks about the British jihadi bride schoolgirls who inspired her new show

June 2014

  • Comedian Jack Dee denies having threatened to walk out of I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue after complain

    In defence of smutty jokes

    Shazia Mirza
    Shazia Mirza: Innuendo has a long, illustrious history in British comedy – as Jack Dee's critics should know

July 2012

  • Terror bus shuts M6

    Megabus scare: where there's smoke, beware of brown men on buses

    Shazia Mirza

    Shazia Mirza: The terrorist paranoia over an Asian man with an e-cigarette shows we should think twice before accepting racial stereotypes

June 2012

  • Theresa May Appears On The Andrew Marr Show

    Immigrants don't come here for the weather – they want to work

    Shazia Mirza
    Shazia Mirza: Theresa May's bid to stop poor UK residents bringing in non-EU spouses would have barred my accountant, doctor and dentist

April 2011

  • Alex Horne

    The boffins in search of the perfect gag

    Can you learn to be funny? Can you study humour and unlock its scientific formula? Alex Horne swaps the comedy circuit for the lecture hall in search of the science of laughter. Plus, Greg Davies, Tim Minchin and Shazia Mirza tell us what really tickles them

December 2010

  • Shazia Mirza

    Shazia Mirza's weekend column
    Shazia Mirza: Diary of a disappointing daughter

    'It's a mystery why parents can't praise their children to their faces. It would change the world if they would'

  • shazia mirza

    Shazia Mirza's weekend column
    Shazia Mirza: Diary of a disappointing daughter

    'Those jumble sales were an adventure, I'd walk in and it would smell of dead women's clothes'

  • Shazia Mirza

    Shazia Mirza's weekend column
    Shazia Mirza: Diary of a disappointing daughter

    It can be hard for children of very successful parents to match them; it's also hard for children of not very confident parents to over-ride their sense of inferiority

November 2010

  • Shazia Mirza, standup comic

    Shazia Mirza's weekend column
    Shazia Mirza: Diary of a disappointing daughter

    'My major intrigue was: married and divorced twice. Had he buried them under the patio?'

  • Shazia Mirza

    Shazia Mirza's weekend column
    Shazia Mirza: Diary of a disappointing daughter

    Dad called yesterday: 'Your mum's very selfish leaving me here by myself. I could die in the night and no one would know. And there's no curry in the freezer.'
  • Shazia Mirza

    Shazia Mirza's weekend column
    Shazia Mirza: Diary of a disappointing daughter

    'My dad loves buying big cards with lots of over-the-top emotion'

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