Ali Badshah (born Sayyid Ali Mehdi Rizvi Badshah Al-Hussaini) is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, producer, and director. Badshah played Nurullah in the Irish animated film '' The Breadwinner.''

Career

Working as a comedian, Badshah has written and acted in comedy skits for

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, CTV,

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, and

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Australia. His style of comedy is observational and likely originated from his experiences growing up and living in

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. Badshah wrote and performed for

Video on Trial ''Video on Trial'' is a Canadian comedy television program that airs on Canadian television network MuchMusic. The show consists of a panel of musicians, comedians, and entertainment columnists critiquing five different music videos in a courtroo ...

and was an associate producer for

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. He created the sketch series ''Bloody Immigrants'' for

. Ali was also featured on the

Comedy Network CTV Comedy Channel (often shortened to CTV Comedy) is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell Media which focuses primarily on comedy programming and operates two time-shifted feeds, runni ...

's 'Nubian Disciples Special.'

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