In 1993, Mirza won the
Hackney Empire East West Quest and he went solo into stand-up and since then has not looked back. He has written pieces for magazines and is well known on the London comedy circuit. The same year (1995) he co-starred in a full-length show with Scottish Comedian Brian Higgins in a show called 'Haggis & Curry'. Since that initial success he gave up his job as a structural engineer and began work as a full-time stand-up comedian. In the Asian comedy field he has worked with and for the 'One Nation. ..lnnit!' Team based at Watermans in Brentford and has also played all the major comedy clubs and is a regular at
Jongleurs Comedy Clubs. The show 'Walking with Muslims' coincided with the 2003 Iraq War and gained worldwide acclaim as Jeff Mirza appeared as dictator Saddam Hussein who was on the run at the time. He has played the comedy circuit in London including Jongleurs and
The Comedy Store. He has performed all over the world, and is the first British Muslim comedian ever to perform stand-up comedy to sell out shows in
Saudi Arabia. He is regularly involved with interfaith dialogue between different communities and often called in to lighten-up and moderate contentious debates between multi-faith conservatives. In July 2011, Mirza toured four UK cities in the Peace Youth and Community Trust's (PYCT) first Muslim Comedy Tour, alongside
Humza Arshad,
Prince Abdi and
Nabil Abdul Rashid. From June to 28 August 2011, he presented a series of eight programmes in the world's first interfaith game show called
Faith Off on the
Islam Channel at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe in
Underbelly,
Cowgate, Edinburgh. He also performed his show
Jihad: Heresy Or Hearsay. He has also appeared at the Leicester Comedy Festival and Glastonbury Festival. Mirza is now developing a television sitcom and writing new material for a world tour. ==Acting career==