Asim Chaudhry

In high school, Chaudhry made a play parodying the 1972 crime film The Godfather, called The Poppadom Father.

On a media studies course at college, he met Hugo Chegwin, Steve Stamp, and Allan Mustafa.

The group made a series of YouTube mockumentaries, filmed by Chaudhry, based on their experiences as DJs on a pirate radio station in London.

The mockumentaries were seen by Ash Atalla, producer of the mockumentary series The Office, and Atalla commissioned the group to make the BBC Three series People Just Do Nothing.

Chaudhry also authored How To Be a Man under the name Chabuddy G, and the group produced music as Kurupt FM. Chaudhry wrote and directed the short film Love Pool, and has appeared in Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, Wonder Woman 1984 and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.

Asim Ijaz Chaudhry (born 24 November 1986) is a British comedian, writer, director and actor best known for playing Chabuddy G in the BBC mockumentary series People Just Do Nothing, which he co-created.

He is often known as Chabuddy G since the show's release.

For this role, he won a Royal Television Society Award and was nominated for two British Academy Television Awards.

Asim Chaudhry was born on 24 November 1986 to a Pakistani Muslim family in Hounslow, London.

His mother hails from Karachi, Pakistan, and his father from Lahore.

Chaudhry attended Islamic summer schools during his childhood.

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.

In 2015 and 2016, Chaudhry starred in the mockumentary Hoff the Record alongside David Hasselhoff.

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.

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.

Chaudhry won a 2017 Royal Television Society Award for Best Comedy Performance.

He was nominated for two British Academy Television Awards for Best Male Comedy Performance, in 2017 and 2018.

The show also won awards for Best Scripted Comedy at the 2017 BAFTAs and 2017 RTS Awards.

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.

In 2018, Chaudhry appeared in series six of the panel show Taskmaster and starred in the television film Click & Collect alongside Stephen Merchant.

At college, Chaudhry met Hugo Chegwin, Steve Stamp, and Allan Mustafa, with whom he created YouTube mockumentary videos about a fictional pirate radio station.

This led to the group being commissioned for People Just Do Nothing.

The programme ended in 2018 after five series, as the group found it increasingly difficult to come up with new ideas.

A film, People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan, was released in 2021.

A US remake is planned, in which Chaudhry will serve as an executive producer.

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.