Everyone lives in Cuckooland, says Shazia Mirza – the only thing is that very few people actually know it.
Internationally acclaimed stand-up comedian Shazia, is currently taking her audiences on a fact finding mission to Cuckooland.
She says: "It is a place where anyone can be anything, do anything and say anything.
"A land where the inhabitants don't give a monkey's what anyone thinks.
"To hell with it! They're going to say it anyway! We all know we're a bit deluded sometimes but few can admit that we're all citizens of the rich and diverse Cuckooland called home."
Shazia is currently on the road with her brand new show which comes to the Ustinov Studio in Bath next Thursday, February 21.
Shazia is not only one of the country's most acclaimed stand-up comedians she is also an award winning columnist, respected radio presenter and TV commentator.
Shazia has toured India for the British Council, gigged at the Arosa Comedy Festival in Switzerland and performed in Miami, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Zurich, Luxembourg and Galway.
She is an established columnist having written columns for The Guardian, Virgin Trains travel magazine Hotline and the New Statesman for which she won the PPA Best Columnist Award in 2008.
Shazia currently writes for DAWN, Pakistan's oldest and most widely read English newspaper and website www.dawn.com
You's probably seen her on TV too in programmes like The Wright Stuff, Have I Got News For You, Joan Bakewell's Taboo, 60 Minutes and Richard & Judy
Her BBC3 documentary F*** Off I'm A Hairy Woman received a record breaking 613,000 viewers
on its first transmission.
The show starts at 8pm.
Tickets cost £13/10 and are available on 01225 448844.
WIN TICKETS
We have two tickets to give away. All you have to do is answer the following question, put your answer on a postcard and send it with your name and telephone number to Cuckooland Competition, The Bath Chronicle, Westpoint, James Street West, Bath BA1 2DA.
The first correct answer out of the hat on Monday morning will get the tickets.
The question is: Shazia is on a fact-finding mission to where?
