Urooj Ashfaq
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m joined by Urooj Ashfaq - the Mumbai-based comedian, writer and actor who’s quickly become one of the most exciting voices in stand-up. Bursting onto the scene winning Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2023, she’s now back with her new show, How To Be A Baddie.
We discuss the danger of optimising your honesty, the evolution of the Indian stand-up scene, can you be emotionally sensitive while succeeding in comedy, why you can’t plan authenticity, the pressure for women to never be mediocre and we find out if Urooj Ashfaq is happy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith today. I'm talking to Uruj Ashfak, Mumbai-based comedian, |
| 0:23.5 | writer, actor, phenomenal social media, sketchy delivery type person, and someone who is quickly |
| 0:31.1 | becoming one of stand-up's most exciting voices. Yes, you heard it here, well, not first, |
| 0:36.6 | because she won best newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2023, so that's where you heard it here, well, not first, because she won best newcomer at the Edinburgh |
| 0:39.3 | Comedy Awards in 2023, so that's where you heard it first. But she is back now with her new show |
| 0:44.5 | How to Be a Baddy, which I saw, me and Nish saw it and laughed like absolute drains as Edinburgh |
| 0:50.5 | had just gone. And that compelled me to get her onto this pod. In the first half of |
| 0:55.3 | this episode, we're going to discuss feeling like a British comic trapped in an Indian system. |
| 1:01.5 | There's a phrase for you. We'll talk about the danger of optimising your honesty. And have you |
| 1:07.9 | noticed since producer Callum started giving me bullet points for these blurbs? |
| 1:12.2 | I faff around so much less. We really do talk about optimising your honesty. |
| 1:16.8 | I've started fuffing around again. I'll get back to it. We'll talk about the evolution |
| 1:19.7 | of Indian stand-up and we will find out whether you can be emotionally sensitive while still |
| 1:25.0 | succeeding in the comedy industry. Loads and loads of brilliant stuff in this one. |
| 1:29.5 | Join the Insiders Club if you fancy. Three pounds a month on Patreon. You support the podcast. So important |
| 1:35.1 | these days, don't you think, to support podcasts in general, but specifically ones that have been |
| 1:39.9 | going for nearly 14 years. You can get on board free pound a month on Patreon, patreon.com.com |
| 1:46.0 | slash comcom pod, and you can get instant ad-free access to the full video and audio of this episode. |
| 1:53.0 | Uridj came to Comcom Towers to record this one with me, and so we've got loads of that and 25 minutes of exclusive extra content. |
| 2:04.2 | Tell you a bit more about what is in that extra content later on. |
| 2:06.5 | But for now, here is Uruj Ashfak. |
| 2:15.7 | I was so nervous to come on the first time you asked because I was like, I don't know anything. |
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