Nabil Abdulrashid

Nabil Abdulrashid is an award-winning comedian and writer.

Nabil has appeared on all of the top comedy entertainment shows, including multiple appearances on: Live at the Apollo, QI, Have I Got News For You, The Last Leg and Would I Lie To You? plus House of Games, An Extra Slice, Pointless Celebrities, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and loads more. A practising Muslim, Nabil was also a ‘pilgrim’ on BBC Two’s faith-based show Pilgrimage. He has come a long way since being a finalist and Alesha Dixon’s golden buzzer on Britain’s Got Talent in 2020.

In his first tour show, entitled N.A.B.I.L (Nobody Actually Believed I’d Last), he shared hilarious stories about his experiences of the school system in Nigeria, his return to England, how he spent a short time in prison and started performing comedy upon his release. The show was declared “moving and captivating as well as split-your-sides funny” (Evening Standard) and Nabil praised for his “genuine humanity… an easy comic to like even before he holds you rapt with his various misadventures” (Chortle).

Nabil received critical acclaim and sell out audiences for his debut Edinburgh Fringe show The Purple Pill, which he then took on tour.  The show was filmed as a stand up Special and is available to watch on YouTube. His new show Urban Battuta has been on tour across the UK, Europe and beyond.

Nabil’s comedy has been widely praised in the press. The Guardian recognised his “sardonic intelligence and sharp eye for the absurdities of racial discourse” and identifies him as “one of comedy’s most honest chroniclers of life’s complexities and contradictions”. The Scotsman cites him as “a potent, mischievously entertaining voice” and The List describes him as “a likeable raconteur with a unique perspective”

Nominee: Best Performance National Reality TV Awards 2021
Winner: Joe.co.uk TV Comedian of the Year 2020
Finalist: Britain’s Got Talent 2020
Finalist: Comedy Knights Comedian Of The Year 2015
Finalist: Laughing Horse New Act 2014
Finalist: New Act Of The Year 2013
Winner: Which Religion Is Funniest? 2010

TV

• Silence is Golden (Guest, U, 2025)
• The Last Leg (Guest, Channel 4, 2023-2025)
• Would I Lie To You? (Guest, BBC1, 2025)
• QI (Guest, BBC, 2023-2025)
• Have I Got News For You (Guest, BBC1, 2022-2024)
• The Last Leg in Paris (Guest, Channel 4, 2024)
• Battle in the Box (Guest, U&Dave, 2024)
• The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice (Guest, Channel 4, 2023)
• Live At The Apollo (Host, BBC2, 2023)
• Big Zuu’s Big Eats (Guest, Dave, 2023)
• Steph’s Packed Lunch (Guest, Channel 4 & ITV, 2021 & 2023)
• Sorry, I Didn’t Know (Guest, ITV, 2023)
• Pointless Celebrities (Contestant, BBC1, 2023)
• Pilgrimage: The Road through Portugal (Presenter, BBC2, 2023)
• The Big Narstie Show (Guest, Channel 4, 2022)
• BBC New Comedy Awards (Judge, BBC3, 2022)
• The A to Z of Horror Movies (Guest, Sky Cinema, 2022)
• 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Guest, Channel 4, 2022)
• This is MY House (Guest, BBC1, 2022)
• Saturday Kitchen (Guest, BBC1, 2022)
• Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable (Guest, Dave, 2022)
• The Stand Up Sketch Show (Guest, ITV2, 2022)
• Live At the Apollo (Guest, BBC2, 2021)
• Unapologetic (Guest, Channel 4, 2021)
• Richard Osman’s House of Games (Guest, BBC2, 2021)
• Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains (Guest, Comedy Central, 2021)
• Celebrity Masterchef (Guest, BBC1, 2021)
• Funny Festival Live (Guest, BBC2, 2021)
• Britain’s Got Talent (Finalist, ITV, 2020)

TV – Acting

• The Pharmacy (Role of Zein, Channel 4, 2025)
• Iwájú (Voice of Hawkers, Lackeys, Pilot & Rasheedat Robot, Disney Animation, 2024)

Radio & Podcasts

• Making A Scene (Guest, 2025)
• Contender Ready: An Unofficial Gladiators Podcast (Guest, 2025)
• I’m ADHD! No You’re Not (Guest, 2025)
• Mo Gilligan: Beginning, Middle & End (Guest, 2025)
• Always Be Comedy with James Gill (Guest, 2025)
• Off Menu (Guest, Plosive, 2024)
• Everyone Hates You (Guest, 2023)
• Hoovering with Jessica Fosteskew (Guest, Acast, 2023)
• The MarshyCast (Guest, 2023)
• Northern News (Guest, 2023)
• Best Medicine (Guest, BBC Radio 4, 2023)
• What the F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel (Guest, WTF Productions, 2023)
• Why Do You Think You’ve Got No Friends? (Guest, 2023)
• Saturday Live (Radio Guest, BBC Radio 4, 2023)
• The Comedy Club (Radio Guest, BBC Radio 4 Extra, 2023)
• Please Tell Me A Story with Omid Djalili (Guest, Sony Music Podcasts, 2023)
• ADHD Aha! (Guest, Understood Org, 2023)
• Ayesha Hazarika with Times Radio Drive (Radio Guest, Times Radio, 2022-2023)
• The Flop Squad Podcast (Guest, 2023)
• The Gargle (Guest, Acast, 2022-2023)
• Wheel of Misfortune (Guest, BBC Sounds, 2022)
• You’re Dead to Me (Guest, BBC Radio 4, 2022)
• The Lady Leshurr Show (Radio Guest, Radio 1Xtra, 2022)
• The Hugo Rifkind Show (Radio Guest, Times Radio, 2022)
• The Likely Dads (Guest, BBC Radio 4, 2022)
• Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of Nowhere (Radio Guest, BBC Radio 4, 2021)
• The Happy Hour (Radio Guest, BBC R5 Live, 2021)
• The Froth with Rhod Gilbert, Sian Harries & Friends (Guest, Llanbobl Vision, 2021)
• I Am Not Your Bilal (Host, 2020-2021)

Digital

• Jokes Only A… Can Tell (Channel 4 Digital, 2022-2023)
• Double Down News (2022-2023)
• Reddit Ask Me Anything (Reddit, 2023)

Live

• Urban Battuta (International Tour, 2024-2025)
• The Purple Pill (Edinburgh Fringe Festival & International Tour, 2023-2024)
• N.A.B.I.L (Edinburgh Fringe Festival & National Tour, 2021-2022)

Press

Abdulrashid is emerging as one of comedy’s most honest chroniclers of life’s complexities and contradictions
★★★★ The Guardian (on The Purple Pill)

A potent, mischievously entertaining voice
★★★★ The Scotsman (on The Purple Pill)

A strong hour…a likeable raconteur with a unique perspective
★★★★ The List (on The Purple Pill)

Pinch-me clever and painstakingly bold…never predictable, often hysterical – and overall a joy
★★★★ Time Out (on The Purple Pill)

He successfully interrupts our echo chambers… The Purple Pill is also wrapped in jokes, Abdulrashid is never far away from a punchline, and the laughter…spreads around the room with contagious joy
★★★★ Fest (on The Purple Pill)

Urgent, uncompromising and refreshingly radical fare, smartly woven into a gag-packed set… a fresh comic voice and unapologetically funny
The Telegraph

His set – edgy, thoughtful, beholden to no one – raised the roof
The Guardian (10 Best Comedy Shows of 2020)

He’s the star by a wide margin… animated by a sardonic intelligence and sharp eye for the absurdities of racial discourse
The Guardian

Defiant and fearless
The Metro 

Hilarious
The Radio Times

Absolutely brilliant, a breath of fresh air
Alesha Dixon

Too funny. A really refreshing comic voice
David Walliams 

An exciting and interesting comic
Mark Thomas