Kayvan Novak

Video: Cast of Four Lions discuss controversial film

Four Lions, the debut feature film from director Chris Morris tackles the difficult subject of suicide bombers. It tells the story of four young Muslim men from the north of England who become radicalised and decide to become suicide bombers.

The cast Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Adeel Akhtar and Nigel Lindsay spoke to BBC Breakfast about the film.

In Fonejacker, Kayvan Novak took a popular childhood prank to the extreme. He phoned unsuspecting members of the public under a range of comic guises in order to wind the recipients up. In his latest series, which continues tonight, he comes face to face with his victims, using prosthetics to play an array of characters. Old phone favourites are now brought to life, such as car salesman Terry Tibbs. New creations include Dr Ali, Saddam Hussein's plastic surgeon.

Facejacker is the follow-up to prank phone call show Fonejacker. It finds heavily disguised comedian Kayvan Novak taking his characters to the streets to bamboozle the public.

It works fairly well because there is nothing mean-spirited about Novak's japery. At worst he's merely wasting people's time. He's also a gifted character comic - the stunt in which he voiced a recalcitrant takeaway drive-through machine was particularly impressive. Enjoyable, although I suspect it may pall after a while.

Facejacker review

Facejacker, a spin-off from Fonejacker, puts Kayvan Novak's creations in the real world but the first episode doesn't live up to expectations.

He became a cult figure with the edgy prank call series Fonejacker, now Kayvan Novak is coming out from behind the telephone receiver to look his bemused victims in the eye. In Facejacker, the comic dons prosthetics, cakes himself in make-up and morphs into a smorgasbord of infuriating characters out to baffle and beleaguer those unlucky enough to pull up to his fast food drive-in counter or stumble upon his fake plastic surgery consultancy. Several familiar Fonejacker characters are given faces, including the hapless scamster Augustus Kwembe and the sleazy car salesman Terry Tibbs, while new personas include a charlatan art critic and a former member of Saddam Hussein's medical team. Prepare to laugh, but most of all prepare to be gob-smacked by Novak's nerve.

Kayvan Novak (the star of Fonejacker who made prank phone calls in the guise of various personalities) reinvents the hidden camera show. Some of his personalities prove just as funny in the flesh, but the best characters are new ones such as the excruciatingly bad art critic, Brian Badonde.

Fonejacker Kayvan Novak's scrape with the law

Kayvan Novak, the man behind Fonejacker, had a brush with the law when a prank backfired while he was filming the new spin-off series Facejacker.

US call for Fonejacker

MipTV: E4's notorious prankster Fonejacker will be heading to the US after Hat Trick International sold both series to Comedy Central.

The sale is a coup for indie Hat Trick, who produce the show created by and starring comedian Kayvan Novak.

The London Paper Review

Despite the Bafta, Fonejacker has yet to capture the attentions of merchandise makers, but you only have to hear the oleaginous 'Good eeeeeevening madam' of conman George Agdgdgwngo - inviting a nice lady to - exchange her passport details for a 'hot beverage at Britain Has Very Much Talent' to know a talking doll is but a Christmas carol away from production.