Adil Ray

Preview - Citizen Khan

While there will forever be debate about the show's quality, for me the main problem caused by Citizen Khan is that the BBC deep down must think that they have done enough in terms of catering to BAME audiences with just one sitcom, in comparison to ITV2 who have been trying out new pilots all week. The BBC needs to be more adventurous and seek new talent.

BBC comedy classics go on display

Much-loved British comedians and sitcom stars are being celebrated in a new exhibition. Comedy faces from Frankie Howerd to Ricky Gervais are on display at the Compton Verney art gallery in Warwickshire from 9 July. BBC Faces of Comedy is showing 100 pictures ranging from the 1950s to the present day. Leading comics have curated the exhibition - including Have I Got News For You panellist Paul Merton and the star of Citizen Khan, Adil Ray. Here they talk about some of their favourite comedy moments.

New exhibit shows archive pictures of BBC comedians

Compton Verney exhibition charts 60 years of comedy, from Hancock's Half Hour to Miranda Hart.

Comedy writer Adil Ray appointed OBE

Adil Ray, the writer and actor behind BBC sitcom Citizen Khan, has been appointed an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

Citizen Khan: They All Know Me review

This may be an assumption of my own, but it seems this audience do not regularly go to comedy nights, and they seemed reasonably entertained by the show presented to them. If only they knew how much funnier, more original, more ambitious shows are out there.

Adil Ray interview

"I'm not writing Asian jokes for Asian people - I want everyone to enjoy them."

Citizen Khan review

Citizen Khan is certainly a larger than life character and perfect for a one-man comedy show but ninety minutes worth does seem over ambitious in the playing. On the plus side, it is great that an audience of mixed races enjoys comedy together. Although his observations have an ethnic base, they are really universal subjects like keeping the family happy and making ends meet. His claim that things would be so much easier if everyone listened to his wisdom and did as he says is one that many families encounter universally. British Muslims encounter exactly the same problems as everyone else it seems. It's a funny old world.

BBC sitcom Citizen Khan 'Islamophobic', says MP

A BBC sitcom has been criticised as "Islamophobic" during a Commons debate about whether the BBC's programmes and staff reflect UK diversity.

Radio Times review

There's a chance to meet the man behind Citizen Khan, Adil Ray. And perhaps because Ray's professional life is spent permanently masked by fake facial hair, he selects "beards" as his first pet hate. His case against them is clearly flimsy, but slightly more convincing than his case against something central to our national culture: tomato ketchup. The audience is never on board for that one.

Elsewhere, in "the Great British Bellyache-Off", Greg Davies has a terrific rant about people who give their dogs very specific instructions ("...and the same can be applied, while I'm on the subject, to toddlers") before telling a story about dressing his dog in his dad's underpants.