Ep. 579 - Fatiha El-Ghorri - Stand-up comedy from from Taskmaster, Live at the Apollo, QI, The Last Leg…
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Fatiha El-Ghorri is the breakout star of Taskmaster series 19 and an award-winning stand-up comedian. Her sharp, witty observations challenge stereotypes with humour rooted in her experiences as a British Muslim hijabi woman, offering a fresh and fearless voice on stage. She has performed at the Royal Albert Hall and the London Palladium alongside Lenny Henry for Comic Relief. On TV, Fatiha has performed stand-up on Live at the Apollo, The Russell Howard Hour and Comedy Central Live, and made appearances on QI, The Jonathan Ross Show, Outsiders, Big Zuu’s Big Eats, Guessable, The Last Leg, Out of Order, and is a team captain on U&Dave’s Silence is Golden. Fatiha has acted in the BAFTA-winning Mr Bigstuff for Sky, with series 2 launching this year, and she wrote and starred in her own BBC short, Donkey. Fatiha’s debut novel, The Perks of My Hijab, will be published by Simon & Schuster Children’s Books .
Fatiha El-Ghorri is our guest in episode 579 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
For Fatiha’s tour ad Edinburgh tickets, visit - https://www.fatihaelghorri.co.uk .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome once again to my time capsule. My name is Mike Fenton-Stevens, |
| 0:15.9 | and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life |
| 0:20.0 | they wish they had in a time |
| 0:21.6 | capsule. They pick four things they really love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. |
| 0:28.0 | My guest in this episode is the stand-up comedian Fatihar El Gori. Fatia is the breakout star of |
| 0:35.2 | Taskmaster and Mr Big Stuff, |
| 0:42.0 | and she's embarking on her first ever stand-up tour, Cockney Stacking Doll. |
| 0:46.2 | It's Fatia's debut tour and will run across 11 UK shows from the 25th of April to the 7th of June, 26, |
| 0:50.3 | including a big London date at the Leicester Square Theatre on Saturday the 23rd of May. |
| 0:55.7 | Fadier is an award-winning Hackney-born comedian, actor and writer, |
| 1:00.0 | who sharp, witty observations challenged stereotypes with humour rooted in her experience |
| 1:04.9 | as a British Muslim hijabi woman, offering a fresh and fearless voice on stage. |
| 1:11.2 | She already has an impressive list of TV credits under her belt, series 19 of Taskmaster, as we mentioned, acting in two series of the BAFTA winning Mr Big Stuff, yep, you mentioned that as well, as well as appearances on Live the Apollo, QI, The Last Leg, the Jonathan Ross Show, 9 out of 10 Cats, Does Countdown, |
| 1:30.1 | Silence is Golden, The Russell Howard Hour, Big Zoos Big Eats, Outsiders, The Wheel, Gessable, |
| 1:37.0 | The Weakest Link, Bell Goodreich Unforgivable, out of order, and as head judge, |
| 1:42.1 | on the 2025 BBC New Comedy Awards. |
| 1:45.5 | She's also written and starred in her own comedy short for the BBC, Donkey. |
| 1:50.3 | She's made other podcast appearances too, including off-menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster, |
| 1:56.3 | whoever they are, Alan Carr's Life's A Beach, and Comfort Eating with Grace Dent. But she's finally |
| 2:02.5 | reached the podcast pinnacle, obviously. Her radio pilot on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, titled |
| 2:10.5 | A Match Made Inshallah, where Fatia, a twice-divorced stand-up comedian, is looking for love |
| 2:17.0 | and ready to date. |
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