Juice star Mawaan Rizwan wins Comedy Hero at GAY TIMES Honours 2023
Mawaan Rizwan is the recipient of the GAY TIMES Honour for Comedy Hero. The comedian, writer and actor has come into his own in 2023 with the release of BBC Three’s trippy comedy Juice.
The former YouTuber has risen in notoriety through an array of telly gigs on Live at the Apollo and Taskmaster and as a writer for Netflix’s Sex Education.
Key to his success is the combination of laugh-out-loud comedy intersected with a multifaceted exploration of queer British-Pakistani identity.
In the critically-acclaimed comedy, praised for its slapstick humour and trippy visuals, Juice follows Jamma (Rizwan) as he navigates the millennial mundanities of finding the balance between his creative agency job, budding romantic relationship with Guy (Russell Tovey) and the complexities of fighting for attention in a busy family environment.
