Arts & Culture
Award winning comedian Shazia Mirza heads to Swindon Arts Centre

Award-winning comedian Shazia Mirza continues her critically acclaimed nationwide tour as she heads to the Swindon Arts Centre on Saturday 21 January.

The Kardashians Made Me Do It is a searing and urgent exploration of life, love and Jihadi brides, inspired by three girls who left Bethnal Green to join ISIS, and an unrelated radio piece Shazia contributed to the BBC which subsequently received a record number of complaints.

The show tells of the dangers of politically correct liberalism versus the sinister and terrifying intrusion of ISIS into the lives of young British Asian women, and explores the phenomenon of jihadi brides.

The revered, applauded, loved and reviled comedian and columnist has appeared on various TV and radio shows including Have I Got News For You (BBC), F*** Off, I’m a Hairy Woman (BBC) for which she spent seven months in the service of hirsutism, NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Beautiful People (BBC2), The World Stands Up (Paramount Comedy), and a regular slot on Radio 2’s Vanessa Feltz Show and Radio 4’s The Now Show.

She has performed internationally from Texas to Kosovo and has been a regular contributor to The Financial Times, The Daily Mail and wrote a weekly column in The Guardian entitled ‘Dairy of a Disappointing Daughter’, and was recently a guest on ITV’s Jonathan Ross Show and Loose Women.

In 2008 she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy, won ‘Columnist of the Year’ at the prestigious PPA Awards for her fortnightly column in The New Statesman and won The GG2 Young Achiever of the Year Award.

Get your tickets now for the Swindon Arts Centre from www.swindontheatres.co.uk 

Shazia Mirza will also play The Old Fire Station in Oxford on December 1 and Salisbury Arts Centre on December 2.

Old Fire Station tickets - www.oldfirestation.org.uk

Salisbury Arts Centre tickets - www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk

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