People Just Do Nothing Chaudhry co-created and starred in
People Just Do Nothing, a BBC mockumentary sitcom which premiered in 2014. The series is largely improvised. Chaudhry plays Chabuddy G, a failed entrepreneur with high ambitions who manages the group Kurupt FM. The character is partially based on Chaudhry's father. The programme ended in 2018 after five series, as the group found it increasingly difficult to come up with new ideas. A US remake is planned, in which Chaudhry will serve as an executive producer. Chaudhry won a 2017
Royal Television Society Award for Best Comedy Performance. The show also won awards for Best Scripted Comedy at the 2017 BAFTAs and 2017 RTS Awards. Chaudhry, Hugo Chegwin, Steve Stamp, and Allan Mustafa also perform as the group Kurupt FM. Their single "Heart Monitor Riddem" was released in 2016 after featuring in
People Just Do Nothing, and a music video shot by Chaudhry was released in 2018. Kurupt FM were signed to independent music label
XL Recordings. Their single "Suttin Like That" was released in October 2017, and their mixtape
The Lost Tapes was released in November 2017. Chaudhry has also released a comedy book,
How to Be a Man, under the name Chabuddy G.
Film In 2016, Chaudhry starred in the short film
Donald Mohammed Trump as
Donald Trump. The
black comedy shows Trump inexplicably turning into an Asian man before a
Republican Party rally. Though Chaudhry watched hours of Trump speaking in preparation, he was told by the director to instead play Trump as "a real person", so that the film could focus on the politics of the situation rather than Trump himself. Chaudhry also appeared in the comedy film
Chubby Funny, about two struggling London actors, in which he played a corner shop owner. In February 2018, the 17-minute short film
Love Pool was released, which Chaudhry wrote and directed. In
Love Pool, single man Mark meets a woman while carpooling with the service
Uber. The film was Chaudhry's directorial debut, produced by DMC Film and released on the app
Vero. It was inspired by a dinner party in which Chaudhry felt pressure from his friends to settle down, and by his carpooling experiences. Chaudhry plays the taxi driver, imagining the character as the "pissed off, sour, bitter cousin" of Chabuddy G—his character in
People Just Do Nothing. The film won the 2018 People's Choice Award at Thunderdance, an independent film festival in London. In 2018, Chaudhry appeared in the comedy film
Eaten by Lions, which is about half-brothers Omar and Pete who search for Omar's estranged father after their parents are eaten by lions. It premiered at the
Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2018. In a three-star review, Steve Bennett of
Chortle called Chaudhry a "scene-stealer". On 24 December 2018, Chaudhry starred alongside
Stephen Merchant in the
BBC One television film
Click & Collect, with a runtime of 53 minutes. The pair play Dev and Andrew, respectively, who travel on a road trip on Christmas Eve to buy Andrew's daughter a Christmas present. Chaudhry took inspiration for Dev from a former neighbour who recognised him from the television and waved at Chaudhry when he was in the kitchen, which he could see from his living room window. Adam Starkey of
Metro and Jasper Rees of
The Telegraph gave the film four out of five stars. Rees commented that Chaudhry performed as Dev like "slipping into an old coat". Sham is an estranged character who wallows in sorrow. Stephen Dalton of
The Hollywood Reporter criticised Chaudhry's character as one of several whose secondary subplots detract from the film. The film received a mostly positive critical reception. Chaudhry received racist comments following the episode, but said of the online response that "99.9% of the stuff is positive and lovely". He commented that he and his friends have all played through the film multiple times. In 2022, Chaudhry was cast in
Duke Johnson's film
The Actor, based on the novel
Memory by
Donald E. Westlake. In 2023, he played
Teefs in
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
Television Chaudhry appeared in the mockumentary
Hoff the Record, which aired for twelve episodes on
Dave in 2015 and 2016. The programme follows
David Hasselhoff as he struggles to find work in the UK, with Chaudhry playing his driver. In a four-star review of the first episode for
The Telegraph, Michael Hogan called Chaudhry "the standout among the supporting cast". In 2017, Chaudhry appeared on the quiz show
Celebrity Mastermind, finishing third of four. In April 2018, he appeared in an episode of ''Rob Beckett's Playing for Time
, in which Rob Beckett plays a series of video games with his guest. In May 2018, Chaudhry played Arnab in the Channel 4 sitcom High & Dry''. The six-episode series is about a group of people who survive a plane crash, and was filmed in the
Seychelles. Chaudhry was a contestant on the sixth series of Dave panel show
Taskmaster; the episodes premiered between May and July 2018.
Taskmaster challenges its panellists to complete humorous and absurd tasks, such as "bring in the best liquid". with an average viewership of 900,000. Sam Wollaston of
The Guardian called Chaudhry "absolutely hopeless at everything, but hilariously and very likably so". In 2018, Chaudhry appeared on chat shows
The Jonathan Ross Show and
The One Show, with the latter appearance in a Christmas special. In 2019, Chaudhry appeared on the first episode of
The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan. That year, he and
Will Poulter presented
Lee Mack with the
Best Entertainment Performance award at the
BAFTA TV awards for
Would I Lie to You. Chaudhry played
Abel in
the television adaptation of
Neil Gaiman's comic series
The Sandman. Chaudhry was not previously familiar with the comics, but fans found he bears a striking resemblance to Abel. Bethy Squire of
Vulture praised Chaudhry's acting, saying he brought the right "pathos and softboy energy" to the character. In 2023, Chaudhry guest starred in
The Cleaner, a sitcom about crime scene cleaning. He described his character Kai as "a conspiracy theorist with a good heart". The series was created by and stars
Greg Davies, whom Chaudhry had worked with on
Taskmaster. The same year, Chaudhry played a role in series 8, episode 4 of the BBC comedy-horror anthology
Inside No. 9 episode "Love Is a Stranger". Chaudhry's character—Jai—is a friendly man on a virtual dating service who suffers from the social stigma of facial
disfigurement. Jai is later revealed to have been lured in by the
pickup artist community. The episode was rated five stars by
The Times. In November 2023, it was announced by
Paramount+ that Chaudhry would star in a new original drama series
Stags, filming on location in
Tenerife and due to be released in 2024.
Other Chaudhry appears in
British Airways' safety video as Director Chabuddy G. In August 2025, Chaudhry and
Kurupt FM were one of the headliners of
Boomtown Fair. ==Personal life==