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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Veronica Lee

Edinburgh festival fringe: Ahir Shah’s Ends wins best show at comedy awards

Ahir Shah and Urooj Ashfaq smile as they hold Edinburgh comedy awards
Ahir Shah and Urooj Ashfaq, who won the best newcomer award, after the ceremony on Saturday. Photograph: Euan Cherry/Getty Images

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.

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