Stand-up for what you believe in

Comedy is a rewarding profession but it's not all a barrel of laughs, comic Jeff Mirza explained to me in a recent interview.

According to Jeff, when laughs are aplenty, comedy is incredibly satisfying but to succeed comics must have confidence in their material and remain true to what they believe in.

"When I first started out in comedy it was a novelty as I was one of the few Asian comics in the UK but now more have appeared on the scene. Some of them don't include Asian jokes which is fine but they have missed an opportunity to talk about race," he explained.

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