Fatiha El-Ghorri: ‘I was mortified by my heckler – but it turned out he wanted to see my trainers’

2026-03-10 - 17:13

The comic on cleaning up her language for family audiences, writing her debut novel and praying before taking the stage How did you get into comedy? After my second divorce, I was online looking for a walking group in my local area and I got a pop-up that said, “try standup comedy” so I did and here I am 10 years later. What’s been one of your all-time favourite gigs? I did a gig at Angel Comedy club [in London] and 12 hijabs turned up to see me. It’s possible that they felt comedy clubs weren’t really a place for them but seeing someone who looked like them on the bill made them come that day. It was so touching, I ended up crying. Fatiha El-Ghorri: Cockney Stacking Doll is on tour in the UK from 25 April Continue reading...