1998-2001 SketchComedy show performed by British Indians Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir and Nina Wadia. Most sketches were self-parody of British Asians and Asian culture, the reaction of white British people to Asians, or Indian-styled spoofs of western TV shows. [[SoundToScreenAdaptation Began as a radio series]], then became a TV adaption on BBC1.

Regular characters included:

* [[CheckPlease Cheque Please]] - A tactless playboy who drives his dates away with insensitive behaviour or comments.
* Bhangra Muffins - Two "street" teenage boys with attitude.
* Everything Comes From India - A man who believes that everything from shampoo [[note]]:Actually semi-true; see TheOtherWiki's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shampoo page on the subject]] for details.[[/note]] to {{Superman}} is Indian [[hottip:* :Except God, who clearly cannot be Indian as he works a six-day week, no Sundays, and Michaelangelo's David because no man with an organ that small could ever be Indian]] or was invented by Indians.
* Minx Twins - Gossipy teenage girls.
* Chunky Lafanga - {{Bollywood}} superstar.
* Smeeta Smitten Showbiz Kitten - A Bollywood reporter whose presenting style leaves a lot to be desired.
* The Coopers - Snobbish ''nouveau riche'' couple in denial that they are Indian.
* Bhangra Man - A superhero who saves people through the power of bhangra dance.
* Guru Maharishi Yogi - A spiritual "guru" who likes to con money out of his followers.
* The Competitive Mothers: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin

The best remembered sketch from the show, which has won several awards, was "Going for an English" - a parody of the behaviour of drunken Brits in Indian restaurants.

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!! Tropes used in the show include:

* BerserkButton - Try suggesting that the Kapoors and Rabindranaths - er, Coopers and Robinsons - are anything but 100% English ...
* TheBGrade - "My son got a B!"
* CatchPhrase - "Kiss my chuddies!", "Cheque please!", "In your dreams, buddy!", "I can make it at home for nothing!", "''Chaakde phaate!''", "Yes, but how big is his ''danda''?", etc.
* CatchphraseInterruptus
* CloudCuckoolander - The Bhangra Muffins
* GagDub - The "Skipinder the Punjabi Kangaroo" sketch.
* GayBar
* LargeHam - Chunky Lafanga
* MyBelovedSmother
* RunningGag
* SoundToScreenAdaptation
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong - All the song parodies on the show.
** Averted with "Club Nirvana", where they had obviously managed to secure permission from George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley to cover Club Tropicana with parody lyrics; from memory, this also held for Hindi People (Common People by Pulp) and Let's Make Connections (I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys (I think)).
* TheUnintelligible - Bhangra Man speaks only in Punjabi but is always perfectly understood by English-speaking characters.
* TruthInTelevision - The cast based some the characters on the show on people they knew and didn't exaggerate when portraying them, [[MuseAbuse offending those people greatly]] while doing it.

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