‘We were smoking a lot of weed’: how we made People Just Do Nothing
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
S7, Ep 4: Allan Mustafa, actor and comedian
June 2024
Life on a plate
Comedian Allan Mustafa: ‘I love banh mi. I geek out on being able to eat history’
The People Just Do Nothing star on using food to connect to his Kurdish roots, his mental block with seafood and why he looks up to Anthony Bourdain
October 2023
Honest playlist
‘I used to walk around junior school thinking I was Snoop’: Allan Mustafa’s honest playlist
The People Just Do Nothing co-creator was raised on 90s hip-hop and can do a convincingly nasal Billie Joe Armstrong impression, but which saccharine soft-rock hit makes him blub?
April 2022
TV review
Peacock review – ready for the new David Brent or Alan Partridge? Look no further
Allan Mustafa’s comic turn as a queasy gym bro cements his status as a top purveyor of preening losers in the canny new show from the People Just Do Nothing team
February 2022
TV review
The Curse review – a sublime crime caper with an unfeasibly brilliant cast
The stars of People Just Do Nothing and King Gary team up for a finely-calibrated show about idiots planning a heist in a gorgeously rendered 1980s London
The Guide newsletter
The Guide #20: Joe Rogan is just one rogue in podcasting’s wild west
In this week’s newsletter: the beauty of podcasts is that anyone can start one and be successful. But that also means Rogan’s is far from the first show to get out of hand
A comedy supergroup is born! People Just Do Nothing and King Gary team up in The Curse
The Kurupt FM crew and comedian Tom Davis have joined forces on Channel 4’s new 1980s-set crime caper. They talk gold bullion, 7ft women – and why they dream of making their dads laugh
September 2021
The music essay
Collapsed laughing: how the gap between music and comedy has disappeared
Comedy and music have always co-existed – but with artists from Dry Cleaning to Bo Burnham cleverly blurring the two, it’s hard to tell where the jokes begin and end
August 2021
People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan review – one giant leap for the BBC mockumentary
People Just Do Nothing stars hit out at lack of diversity in media
People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan review – Kurupt FM crew go global
‘We’re the weirdos – the joke’s on us’: on the set of the People Just Do Nothing movie
May 2021
Brit awards 2021: the best of the ceremony and red carpet – in pictures
Brit awards 2021 in pictures
April 2021
The funniest thing
Hugo Chegwin: ‘Waitrose sent me home to get my David Beckham mohawk cut off’
The actor, writer and People Just Do Nothing star on the things that make him laugh the most
November 2020
‘We will invade your ears no matter where you are’: Kurupt FM on swapping music for podcasting
As the crew behind Brentford’s premier pirate radio station release a second series of their audio show, Rich Pelley joins them at their HQ for an afternoon rant
August 2020
Remote controller
Allan Mustafa and Hugo Chegwin: 'As a teenager, The Bill was really edgy'
The hosts of the Chattin’ Shit podcast and stars of People Just Do Nothing on their love of the classic police drama, and the holy trinity of guilty pleasure TV
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 50 best comedians of the 21st century
From apocalyptic standup Frankie Boyle to the many hilarious faces of Tina Fey, Steve Coogan, Sharon Horgan and Kristen Wiig, we present the funniest people of the era
November 2018
From the King of Comedy to People Just Do Nothing: why the 'cringe com' reigns
Whether it’s cult films or the mockumentary style perfected by The Office, why do we seek discomfort from our comedies?
October 2018
People Just Do Nothing primed for US remake set in Las Vegas
Amazon are attempting to reimagine the Kurupt FM posse as a group of DJs trying to make it on The Strip
