Stand-up comedian Guz Khan has given up his day job as a school teacher to pursue a career in comedy after his satirical Jurassic world video went viral.
He may only have been in the business a year, but his YouTube clips have gone viral and he’s currently one of the most-watched people on the BBC’s iPlayer.
His joke that the film Jurassic World should be banned because of its racist references went worldwide.
The comedy has taken off so well that he won’t be returning to teach Humanities at Grace Academy in Coventry.
Guz, 29, is nicknamed Guzzy Bear and is particularly known for his character Mobeen, a Muslim living in Small Heath, Birmingham.
Mobeen features in Roadman Ramadan, a guide to the Islamic month of fasting during daylight hours.
It is one of five comedy shorts on the iPlayer under the title British Muslim Comedy and sees Mobeen guide his newly-converted friend Trev through his first Ramadan.
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Guz, whose wife has just given birth to their third child, says: “I’ve always been the class clown, entertaining people at Stoke Park School with my accents.
Guz’s comedy went global when he made a video calling for Jurassic World to be boycotted.
As Mobeen, he said he was ‘vexed’ when a character shouted “the pachys are out of containment’.
He thought the abbreviation of Pachycephalosaurus, a real dinosaur, was a racist slur.
After the Birmingham Mail publicised the story, Guz was interviewed by radio stations in American and Indonesia.
He says: “It went all round the world, it was amazing.
“A lot of people thought I was deadly serious, they commented on it without even watching the video where I was clearly joking as I couldn’t keep a straight face.
“It was ridiculous, they thought I was calling for cinemas to be burned down or something.”
