Biography

Hardeep Singh Kohli was born on January 21, 1969 in Brent, London, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Meet the Magoons (2005), Grease Monkeys (2003) and Comedy Lab (1998). He is married to Sharmila ?. They have two children.

He is the brother of Sanjeev Kohli.

In 2009, he was suspended by the BBC for "inappropriate behaviour" towards a female production colleague during his role as a reporter on The One Show (2006).

He attended Glasgow University, where he studied to become a lawyer.

During an interview with Michael Grade on Sunday Morning Live (2010) in 2016, he incorrectly told viewers that Michael Grade had cancelled the original series of Doctor Who (1963). He actually put it on an 18 month hiatus in 1985 and brought it back in September 1986, with the directive that the series needed less violence and more comedy. He also ordered that the Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, be ousted from the role at the end of that season and oversaw the casting of Sylvester McCoy in 1987. The series was cancelled in 1989 by Peter Cregeen, the BBC's new Head of Series, two years after Grade had left the BBC to join Channel 4.

[on his TV hero Jonathan Ross] It upsets me greatly that a man who has broken boundaries since the first time he appeared on television, has rewritten some of the rules of television - there wouldn't be the modern chat show as we know it were it not for The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross (1987), a man that's consistently innovated and been funny, entertaining - he's been a bastion of British entertainment, we'll remember him for three incidents over an entire career. I think it's a real shame that the BBC have let Jonathan go because a lot of people like me really look up to him, he was a trailblazer for us. And of course you're going to get things wrong, but I think it's the BBC's job to get things wrong. I think the pay deal, if we're all being honest, the pay deal was way out of order, but who wouldn't have signed on the dotted line? And also I'd make a small point that every show he does is produced and executive-produced, therefore the blame for when things go wrong ought to be shared amongst all those. You know, I think it's a sad day for Britain and for broadcasting.

I'm the second most well-known Scottish brown person working loosely in comedy.

Not everyone that voted Brexit was a racist but everyone that's racist voted Brexit.