Creator and host of his own TV show “Legally Brown”, Nazeem Hussain aces it in sketch, stand-up and on the road. Unusually for a comic he’s also an upstanding pillar of his community! As well as winning the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Best Newcomer, he is also the recipient of awards for leadership in diversity, and is the patron of a refugee charity. We talk about how his faith feeds into his work, being “a tough-talking idiot”, and the reality of being genuinely targeted by shadowy government organisations…
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