Ghulam Dustgir "Guz" Khan (born 1986) is a British comedian, impressionist, and actor best known for his work in the TV show '' Man Like Mobeen'' and stand up appearances in '' Live at the Apollo''.

Early life

Guz has two sisters who are ten and eleven years older than him. His father died when Khan was three. He is a

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of Pakistani Punjabi descent. Khan grew up on a housing estate in

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, and attended

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. He graduated from

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, and went on to teach

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at Grace Academy. In

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's 2020 BBC comedy podcast ''Things My Mother Never Told Me (... About Lockdown)'', Khan talks about being raised in a

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n community and his relationship to his mother.

Career

Khan uploaded his first video to Facebook in 2014; in June of that year, he first performed on stage, opening for

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. His second time on stage was at a comedy evening at the

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organised for

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, with '' Citizen Khan''. Khan performed under the stage name "Guzzy Bear". In June 2015, whilst performing as his character Mobeen, a Muslim living in

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, Khan made a video expressing mock outrage at the apparent use of " Paki", a racial slur for people of Pakistani descent, in the film '' Jurassic World'', and called for a boycott of the film because a lead character shouted "the Pachys are out of containment", (an abbreviation of the North American

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). In the video, Khan recounts a recent trip he and his friend took to the cinema to watch the film, described some awkward incidents in the cinema whilst watching the film and raises the point that the phrase could sound exceptionally racist to the untrained ear. In six days, the video was watched over 340,000 times on

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, and it has also received over 700,000 views on

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. Khan's hashtag on Twitter, #BoycottJurassicWorld gained attention, and viewers also took to

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to voice their shock at the use of the derogatory term. After the ''

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'' publicised the story, Khan was interviewed by radio stations in the United States and Indonesia. In June 2015, Khan made a short film ''Roadman Ramadan'' as part of the ''British Muslim Comedy'' series, five short films by

comedians commissioned by the

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Early life

Career

Filmography

Film

Television

Personal life

References

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