A show about multiculturalism has won best show at the Edinburgh comedy awards. Ahir Shah, the first British-Asian to win the prestigious award, says in Ends that to be of immigrant origin in the UK is no longer to be “other”.
Shah, 32, who was nominated twice before, interweaves his family’s story with that of the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak. Shah’s grandfather, a factory worker, emigrated from India to Bradford in 1964, at about the same time that Sunak’s parents came to the UK from east Africa.