Stand-up comedian

Mawaan Rizwan

Who Mawaan Rizwan is

Mawaan Rizwan is a comedian, actor and writer who built a following on YouTube, passing eighteen million views by 2018, and has brought shows to the Edinburgh Fringe since 2013; the 2018 hour Juice, at the Pleasance Dome, a show of jokes, dances and songs, followed a forty-date UK tour as support to Simon Amstell.

Rizwan has performed on Live at the Apollo in 2019 and 2020, appeared on the tenth series of Taskmaster, wrote for the second series of Netflix's Sex Education and headlined the final of the Musical Comedy Awards in 2021. Juice became a television series that Rizwan created, wrote, scored and starred in from 2023, winning the BAFTA TV Award for male performance in a comedy in 2024, the year Rizwan also took the Comedy Award at the Attitude Awards.

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Last checked 11 October 2026.

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Career timeline

  1. 2018The Big Asian Stand-Up (2018) On screen
  2. 2019Live at the Apollo (2019, 2020) On screen
  3. 2019Harry Hill's ClubNite (2019) On screen
  4. 2020Taskmaster (series 10, 2020) On screen
  5. 2020Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club (host, 2020) On screen
  6. 2023Juice (creator, writer, composer and star; series 1 2023, series 2 2025) On screen

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Where is Mawaan Rizwan performing next?

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What TV shows and films are they in?

Juice (creator, writer, composer and star; series 1 2023, series 2 2025), Live at the Apollo (2019, 2020), Taskmaster (series 10, 2020), Sex Education (writer, series 2, Netflix), Friday Night Live (Channel 4) and The Big Asian Stand-Up (2018), among 8 credits.

Who are some comedians like them?

Huge Davies (also in Harry Hill's Clubnite), Rosie Jones (also in Sex Education), Sophie Duker (also in Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club), Eshaan Akbar (also in Sex Education) and Julian Clary (also in Friday Night Live).

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Updated 11 October 2026 · the record checked 11 October 2026