Cafe Masti presents Jeff Mirza
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Café Masti featuring Jeff Mirza
After a break for the summer, The Drum is delighted to announce the welcome return of their hugely popular comedy night - Café Masti on Friday 25 September, doors open @ 7.45pm. Café Masti is probably the only comedy club in Birmingham to regularly feature the best in Asian comedians and this month, we’re delighted to welcome the ‘daddy’ of them all - Jeff Mirza.
Following his love affair with the silver screen (he appeared alongside Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider, he’s starred in Bend It Like Beckham plus he appeared in the TV adaptation of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth), the veteran of British Asian comedy, Jeff Mirza will be sauntering into Birmingham to reacquaint himself with his first love, stand-up comedy.
The man dubbed as Europe’s “best Asian comedian” will be taking to the stage delivering his unique blend of comedy which includes parodies of stereotypes. In tonight’s show he will also be delving into the secret, cross-over, mixed up world of a British Asian. Jeff Mirza has some serious comedy credentials and tonight is bound to be a side-splittingly funny.
“Comedy Jihad. His warm, incisive, wit-strewn comedy celebrates the absurd”
The Guardian
Local Unity FM radio presenter and co-founder of The Balti Custard Comedy Club, Mahtab Khan will host and compere the evening.
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MEDIA CONTACT: Katie Reid, Marketing Manager on 0121 333 2421 or e-mail: k.reid@the-drum.org.uk
Note to Editors
EVENT DETAILS
Date Fri 25 September 2009
Event Title Café Masti featuring Jeff Mirza
Doors Open 7.45pm
Ticket Prices £10 (£8) in advance, £15 on the door
Compere Mahtab Khan
Venue The Drum, 144 Potters Lane, Aston, Birmingham B6 4UU
Box Office 0121 333 2444
Web Site www.the-drum.org.uk
Online Bookings: www.the-drum.org.uk
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