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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

‘Christmas paid for the extension on my house!’ How Guz Khan became an unlikely festive TV icon

Jingle all the way … Guz Khan in Stuffed.
‘My brown arse is never going back to Lapland’ … Guz Khan in Stuffed. Photograph: Gary Moyes/BBC/Baby Cow

Guz Khan is developing something of a reputation as Mr Christmas. The comedian and actor is about to release Stuffed, a Lapland-set one-hour comedy co-starring Morgana Robinson. This time last year, he voiced a reindeer in the Richard Curtis animation That Christmas. Two years before that, he made a festive special with James Acaster testing the scientific validity of Home Alone.

“It sounds like, based on all the projects you’ve just listed there, Christmas paid for the extension on my house,” Khan booms down the phone. “Christmas is way better than Eid, bro, based on the facts that you’ve just given me.”

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