Summer time means festivals, outdoors events and of course the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Today’s comedy circuit is seeing a rise in British Asian stand-up comedians.

In a distinct move away from the traditional career path, British Asians are exhibiting creativity on a comedic front.

In fact, British Asian comedy has moved away from the heavy stereotypes of the likes of Mind Your Language in the late 70s.

With three successful series under its belt, ‘Citizen Khan’ proves the British Asian comedy genre is well cemented with the additional accolade of a diverse audience.

The novelty of the iconic TV series ‘Goodness Gracious Me’ has since seen a cultural trajectory, with comedians reflecting the British Asian climate amalgamated with political sensitivities.

Mainstream comics like Romesh Ranganathan and Paul Chowdhry have established a niche for themselves.

Following Ramadan, a host of Muslim comedians performed at the world renowned Comedy Store in London with its first ever Muslim Eid comedy show.

The show includes Imran Yusuf and Shazia Mirza who are already popular names.

Tez Ilyas, who appeared in the Muslim Eid show, will also take to the stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The British Muslim comedians have established a niche for themselves, with routines adopting topical subjects.

Guz Khan who hails from Birmingham plays the character of Mobeen who guides his newly converted friend, Trev, through his first Ramadan.

Tez Ilyas is bringing Tez Talks to Edinburgh where he will approach the audience as if they are all about to convert to Islam whilst he teaches them how to integrate.

Isma Almas is another comedian who uses her ethnicity to her advantage as she performs part of her act in a burka.

As the media has embraced the changes carved by the internet, in this way comedy has taken a vast turn with a mammoth forum on social media which is reflected in the popularity of YouTube channels.

Comedians like Diary of a Badman have utilised YouTube to garner a widespread audience, using comedy as a means to convey messages of social harmony.

Imran Yusuf echoed this sentiment when he spoke of the Muslim Eid comedy show.

“There are voices of reason that go unheard; I wanted to put on a night of Muslim themed comedy to offer a humanized Muslim narrative, as the current alternative is the multitude of subtly ingratiated bigotry about religious communitiesthat seems to have saturated the comedy world.”