Shazia Mirza grew up watching a lot of comedy in her family home, so she sat down with Stylist to delve into her all-time favourite shows and tell us why she loves them so much. It had never been done ...

Shazia Mirza is an award winning British stand up comedian and writer.‘But what do awards mean anyway? Everyone’s got an award. You get awards these days just for leaving the house and recycling your ...

She's been called the world's only female Muslim stand-up comedian, which sounds like a joke in itself. But for Shazia Mirza, comedy is a serious business. In Britain, where she was born, Mirza has ...

Have you heard the one about the female Muslim comedian? No? Well, don't worry about it - until a year ago neither had anyone else. The comedian in question is Shazia Mirza, a 25-year-old former ...

She talks about that trip to France with a long story about Muslim women hiding sex toys under their burkas, which goes into almost surreal detail but eventually becomes undone. There's a clever ...

I am an Apprentice fan. I know Tim [Campbell, Lord Sugar's aide] quite well. It's funny to think he was in the first episode because it's been so long, like 20 years. But he really became an instant ...

A COMIC with a fierce social conscience, Shazia Mirza received awards and hate mail for her dark comedy after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Her material confronted the audience by drawing attention to ...