Ahir Shah

Ahir Shah

A political comedian who was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award in both 2017 and 2018 . His first came to attention as a finalist in the So You Think You're Funny? new act competition, 2008
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Second series for Do Gooders

Garrett Millerick sitcom starring Frank Skinner

Do Gooders, the star-studded sitcom set in a charity, is returning to Radio 4 for a second series.

The comedy stars Frank Skinner, Ahir Shah, Ania Magliano,  Fay Ripley and Garrett Millerick, who also wrote it.

Series one of the cross-generational workplace sitcom ran last year, where it was warmly received by critics and earned two nominations in the BBC Audio Drama Awards, for best sitcom and for best comedy performance for Skinner. 

Magliano was last week announced as one of the contestants in the forthcoming 20th series of Taskmaster.

Four new episodes of Do Gooders will be recorded by production company Avalon later this month, in front of a studio audience.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph last year, critic Tristram Fane Saunders proposed the show for living up to its name, saying:  ‘Do Gooders is good. It’s not searing, necessary, urgent, radical, brave, experimental or any of the things that reviewers often seek to praise comedies for being. All it has going for it, in fact, is that it’s often very funny, and to this critic that’s enough. Jokes – actual jokes – arrive at regular intervals.’

The List likewise praised its ‘regular count of cracking lines’ while Chortle hailed the ‘gag-rich script’.

Free tickets to the recording of the new series, at Theatre Peckham on July 21 and 22, are available from Standing Room Only

Scott Bennett is recording a version of his stand-up show Blood Sugar Baby for Radio 4 at Squire Performing Arts Centre in his Nottingham hometown on July 17. Tickets for that are also available from Standing Room Only.

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Past Shows

Edinburgh Fringe 2011

Ahir Shah: Astrology


Edinburgh Fringe 2012

Comedy Zone 2012


Edinburgh Fringe 2013

Ahir Shah: Anatomy


Edinburgh Fringe 2014

Ahir Shah: Texture


Edinburgh Fringe 2015

Ahir Shah: Distant

Ahir Shah: Distant


Edinburgh Fringe 2016

Ahir Shah: Machines


Edinburgh Fringe 2017

Ahir Shah: Control


Edinburgh Fringe 2018

Ahir Shah: Duffer

Ahir Shah: Duffer


Edinburgh Fringe 2019

Ahir Shah: Dots

Ahir Shah: Dots


Edinburgh Fringe 2021

Ahir Shah: Work-In-Progress


Edinburgh Fringe 2023

Ahir Shah: Ends


Edinburgh Fringe 2024

Ahir Shah: Ends


Edinburgh Fringe 2025

Ahir Shah: Work in Progress


Agent

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