Munya Chawawa

Munya is an award-winning content creator, writer, producer, and actor best known for his character-driven social content and razor-sharp political satire. The winner of the 2022 British
Comedy Awards Breakthrough Talent, Munya has received multiple BAFTA nominations for his first two broadcasting projects and won both the Edinburgh TV Awards and RTS Awards Debut Presenter awards in 2022.

Skewering politics and pop culture, Munya has been recognised as the internet’s king of satire. Commenting on national headlines and viral cultural trends through musical parodies and comedy sketches, Munya has developed numerous caricatures to inspect these topics through the lens of comedy. Posh Drill rapper Unknown P, culturally appropriating chef Jonny Oliver, and unassuming racist Steve are just some of the personalities that have enabled him to engage with the absurdities of contemporary culture.

Behind the camera, Munya’s heroic rise and quicker-than-light responses to the most talked about topics led to writing gigs on Charlie Brooker’s Death to 2020 for Netflix, Comedy Central’s
Motherf**king Pep Talk for Comedy Central, and Channel 4’s and Complaints Welcome. He also wrote and presented the BAFTA-nominated How to Survive a Dictatorship on Channel 4. Alongside his writing credentials, he has his own production company, Munz Made It, and executively produced Youtube Original’s Race Around Britain: a road trip exploring black experience and culture in the UK.

Munya has showcased his abilities as an actor in variety of productions. He starred as Prince Andrew in Prince Andrew: The Musical (Channel 4), played Chronozon in The Sandman (Netflix), made his Film debut in 2023’s Rye Lane, and was casted as a gameshow host in BBC Three’s Mood. Additionally, Munya has appeared on a number of panel and gameshows such as Taskmaster, Celebrity Masterchef, Complaints Welcome, The Last Leg, The Jonathan Ross Show, Would I Lie to You?, and The Frankie Boyle Show.

Munya’s talents have seen him collaborate with some of the world’s most influential brands across a multitude of industries. Some notable examples include producing a six-part Youtube series to launch the Samsung Fold, presenting the announcement of the Adidas ZX as ‘Onya Marks, mastering Roman pottery with the help of Google Search, hosting the BRIT’s Top Table podcast, creating a shopping broadcast-style video to display Patta’s 2020 Summer lookbook, and working alongside Netflix twice to create original content.

Appearing on covers and conducting exclusive interviews, platforms such as The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, Evening Standard, Buzzfeed, The Metro, i-D, Hunger, The Face, The Poke, Chortle, GRM Daily, and Complex Magazine have sung his praises. Cultural icons such as Giggs, Stormzy and Headie One, Dermot O’Leary, Joe Lycett, John Boyega,
Thundercat, Akala, Ian Wright, Guz Khan, Ashley Walters, Anne Marie, Will Poulter, Danny Brown, Julie Adenuga, Rick Edwards, Claudia Winkleman and Ian Stirling have all voiced their support for Munya’s mastery.

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