“The most important stand-up of the year, if not decade.”
Stephen Armstrong, Tortoise Media
“A show so magnificent on every level…Absolutely my show of the Fringe”
Dominic Maxwell, The Times
“this is truly outstanding stand up” ★★★★★
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard
“It’s clear why Ahir Shah won the Edinburgh Comedy Award with this remarkable piece of storytelling” ★★★★★
Steve Bennett, Chortle
“A beautiful, lyrical love letter…Shah is an electric performer, super-intelligent, his material densely packed with insight, yet never far from a gag” ★★★★★
Mark Wareham, Mail on Sunday
Ahir Shah will be taking his 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show award winner, ‘Ends’, across the UK in 2025 following his sold out Edinburgh run, 5 sold out weeks at Soho Theatre, 2 sold out shows at the Royal Court and an appearance at the Netflix is a Joke festival in Los Angeles. ‘Ends’ is an optimistic exploration of generational sacrifice and family with Ahir’s critically acclaimed signature style of intricately crafted gags and electric performance. Ahir will be touring from 30th January – 16th March 2025 with a further Soho Theatre run from Tuesday 24th – Saturday 28th September 2024 (Downstairs, 21:15).
Tickets for Ahir’s Soho Theatre run on sale now at www.ahirshah.com
Tickets for the UK tour will be on sale on Friday 2nd August at www.ahirshah.com
On TV and radio, Ahir’s appearances have included Live at the Apollo (BBC 2), Have I Got News For You (BBC 1), QI (BBC 2), Mock the Week (BBC 2), The Last Leg (Channel 4), Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC 2), The Mash Report (BBC 2), The Now Show (BBC Radio 4), Jurassic World 3, and will be starring in BBC Radio 4’s new sitcom Do Gooders as of Tuesday 30th July. In 2021, Ahir launched his first special, Dots, on HBO Max. Ahir has performed sold out shows across the world including tours of the UK and India and runs at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Adelaide Fringe, Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal and Netflix is a Joke festival in the US.
More praise for Ahir Shah:
Included in top comedy picks of 2023 / for 2024 in
The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Arts Desk
“intricately crafted, profoundly moving, howlingly funny… he’s a blazing talent firing on all cylinders” ★★★★★
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Daily Telegraph
“an astonishing comedy hour… takes audiences to the highest of highs of human emotion” ★★★★★
Isobel Lewis, The Independent
“hugely rewarding and truly touching… No comic motors out more ideas per minute… Oh boy, can he do comedy — but this time his mixture of the scholarly, the radical and the silly takes in tenderness too, and the result is the show of his career.” ★★★★
Dominic Maxwell, The Times
“As usual, Shah has at least twice as much to say as most comics on the Fringe… tremendously powerful” ★★★★★
Brian Logan, Guardian
“Tremendously thoughtful, woundedly candid and self-laceratingly funny” ★★★★
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman
“Shah’s set, a terrifically smart examination of family, religion and depression, is by turns furiously nihilistic and desperately warm and loving”
Rebecca Nicholson, The Observer
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