Sanjeev Singh Kohli was born on 30 November 1971 and is a Scottish actor, comedian, and writer.
16 Facts About Sanjeev Kohli
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Since 2019, Kohli has hosted his own television talk show Sanjeev Kohli's Big Talk, on the BBC Scotland channel.
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Sanjeev Kohli attended Glasgow University, initially to study Medicine, but changed course to study Mathematics, gaining a first-class degree, and subsequently studied for a PhD.
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Sanjeev Kohli starred as Surjit Magoon in Meet the Magoons, co-written by his brother Hardeep, for Channel 4.
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Sanjeev Kohli is a former presenter of the BBC's Asian Network and has previously written for Goodness Gracious Me, The Big Breakfast and Chewin' the Fat, which was written by future Still Game co-stars, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill.
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In December 2006, the Sunday Mail revealed that Sanjeev Kohli would be starring in a major ITV thriller, Losing Gemma.
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Sanjeev Kohli revealed in 2007 that he would be working on a radio comedy project for BBC Radio 4, entitled Fags, Mags and Bags.
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The Daily Record revealed Sanjeev Kohli would be writing for ITV children's show, My Life as a Popat.
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Sanjeev Kohli has starred in BBC Three's Rush Hour as an intolerant taxicab driver, and on the same channel in Phoo Action as a television news presenter.
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Sanjeev Kohli sometimes appears as a pundit on BBC One Scotland's Saturday afternoon Sportscene football programme.
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Sanjeev Kohli made a brief cameo in a speaking role as himself in an episode of BBC's VideoGaiden, where he received a fish in the mail as a gift from the hosts in an attempt to recreate the Nintendo game Animal Crossing.
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One of the hosts was Robert Florence, a writer whom Sanjeev Kohli worked with on Chewin' the Fat.
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In 2011, Sanjeev Kohli appeared on the Scottish tea-time magazine show The Hour on STV.
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Sanjeev Kohli co-hosted in two separate weeks, alongside main presenter Michelle McManus.
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In 2014, Sanjeev Kohli joined the rest of the cast of Still Game in the comeback live show at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow.
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Since April 2019, he has hosted Sanjeev Kohli's Big Talk on the BBC Scotland channel.