Hasan Al-Habib
Hasan Al-Habib is an award-winning stand-up comedian, writer & actor.
Hasan performed at the Midlands regional heats of the BBC New Comedy Awards 2024, won the 2023 Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award and was a finalist at the 2022 Chortle Student Comedy Awards
After selling out his double act show ‘2 Muslim 2 Furious’ at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2024, Hasan will be making his solo debut in 2025 with ‘Death To The West (Midlands)’ – a love letter to his Iraqi heritage and upbringing in Birmingham. DTWM has already received its first nomination for Best Debut at the 2025 Leicester Comedy Festival Awards.
Awards
Regional Heats Performer: BBC New Comedy Awards 2024
Winner: Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award 2023
Finalist: Chortle Student Comedy Awards 2022
Credits
TV
- BBC New Comedy Awards – Midlands Heat (Stand Up, BBC3, 2024)
Radio & Podcasts
- Upload with Nina Das Gupta (Guest, BBC Upload, 2024)
- Sunday Programme (Guest, BBC Radio 4, 2024)
- Open Mic Podcast (Guest, 2024)
- Hyphenated Podcast (Guest, Hyphen, 2023)
Live
- Death To The West (Midlands) (Edinburgh Fringe, 2025)
- 2 Muslim 2 Furious (Edinburgh Fringe, 2024)
Press
“Hasan Al-Habib will be famous in at least two languages very soon with an emphatic stage presence and mainstream appeal”
Rolling Stone
“Deliciously funny and challenging in the way [he] engages with race, class and privilege”
The Guardian
“Hasan stood out. Clearly a man of many talents, his material, delivery and his stage presence were all strong”
Birmingham Comedy Festival
