LAUNCHING ON TUESDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER
“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
Monday 12th August – It was announced today that 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Award winning stand-up Ahir Shah is to release his debut stand-up special on Netflix. The smash-hit stand-up show was recorded earlier this year at London’s prestigious Royal Court Theatre and features Ahir’s trademark intricately crafted gags and electric performance. Launching on Tuesday 10th September, Ends is an optimistic exploration of generational sacrifice spanning themes of immigration, family and politics.
Ends was the runaway hit of the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with the show originally starting life at the beginning of the month as a work in progress show. 3 and a half weeks later, the show was crowned the Best Show of the festival before a sold out five week run at London’s Soho Theatre. The show amassed a slew of 5 star reviews and has been called the ‘show of the Fringe’ (Dominic Maxwell, The Times) and ‘the most important stand up of the year, if not the decade’ (Stephen Armstrong, Tortoise Media). He later took the show to the US as part of the Netflix is a Joke festival in Los Angeles. Ahir will be touring the show across the UK from 30th January 2025.
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.
Ends has been commissioned by Netflix. The 60” special is produced by Avalon and Executive Produced by Ahir Shah, Richard Allen-Turner, Julien Matthews and Jon Thoday.
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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About Avalon
Avalon is a multi-award-winning talent management, television production and live promotion group with offices in London, Los Angeles and New York. Avalon, Artists Rights Group and The Agency together represent a diverse and distinctive roster of artists including actors, comedians, writers and directors, among them Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy, Tony and Olivier Award-winners. Avalon is the UK’s largest true independent television production company, with over 40 shows in production in the last year including: hit entertainment format Taskmaster (Channel 4 in the UK, Network 10 in Australia, TV4 in Sweden, TVNorge/Discovery+ in Norway); Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO); Starstruck (HBO Max/BBC); Not Going Out (BBC), the UK’s longest running sitcom on air; Breeders (FX/Sky); The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show (BBC); and Fantasy Football League (Sky). Avalon has produced over 4,000 episodes of hit programming for audiences in the UK, US and around the world, winning over 30 Emmy Awards and BAFTAs from nearly 100 nominations.
Other landmark Avalon shows include Catastrophe (Amazon/Channel 4), Flatbush Misdemeanors (Showtime), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), TV Burp (ITV), and the cult classic workplace sitcom Workaholics (Comedy Central). Avalon has also produced over 60 comedy specials for various platforms including Amazon, HBO and Netflix, as well as numerous podcasts and radio shows, including the UK’s biggest podcast Shagged. Married. Annoyed. with Chris & Rosie Ramsey. Avalon’s dedicated distribution arm licenses its catalogue of programmes and formats to over 200 territories worldwide. Avalon also produces and promotes live comedy around the world and has promoted more winners and nominees of the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award than any other company. Avalon produced Newman and Baddiel: Live at Wembley, the UK’s first arena comedy show, Jerry Springer: The Opera, winner of four Olivier Awards, and is currently producing Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical in the West End.
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