Sanjeev Kohli

Since April 2019 he has hosted Sanjeev Kohli's Big Talk on the BBC Scotland channel.

In October 2015 Kohli made his first appearance as A.J. Jandhu in the Scottish soap opera River City.

His appearance on BBC Alba in 2015 after having learned a bit of Scottish Gaelic also occasioned controversy in the Gaelic community, as he embodied what they saw as a skin-deep commitment to the language.

In 2014 Kohli joined the rest of the cast of Still Game in the comeback live show at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow. There were 21 performances of the sold-out show.

He has two elder brothers — Randeep Singh Kohli (b. 1966), a senior police officer with the Metropolitan Police in London, and Hardeep Singh Kohli (b. 1969), who is also a journalist and broadcaster and lives in Edinburgh.

In 2012 he appeared on the Channel 4 comedy programme Fresh Meat as a dentistry lecturer Dr Minaj.

In 2011 Kohli appeared on the Scottish tea-time magazine show The Hour on STV. He co-hosted in two separate weeks (ten episodes), alongside main presenter Michelle McManus.

In February 2008 it was announced that he would play the role of God in the video for Glasgow band Attic Lights single "God"

On 21 August 2007 he presented a show called 10 Things To Hate About The Edinburgh Festival. Kohli also sometimes appears as a pundit on BBC One Scotland's Saturday afternoon Sportscene football programme. 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. One of the hosts was Robert Florence, a writer whom Kohli worked with on Chewin' the Fat.

In January 2007, Kohli commented on the accusations of severe racism on Celebrity Big Brother. He told of an incident in which a former boss called him "Mahatma", in reference to Gandhi.

In December 2006 the Sunday Mail revealed that Kohli would be starring in a major ITV thriller, Losing Gemma. Starring alongside Alice Eve, he played "a member of the British High Commission, who helps a young English tourist jailed in Delhi, India". Kohli revealed in 2007 that he would be working on a radio comedy project for BBC Radio 4, entitled Fags, Mags and Bags. The series was broadcast in 2008 and was nominated for a Sony Award. The Daily Record also revealed Kohli would be writing for ITV children's show, My Life as a Popat. Kohli has also 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.

In 2005, Kohli was reprimanded by Glasgow City Council and had his licence to let a property in the city suspended for two years due to safety concerns. The Kohli family have a very successful business in property in Scotland.

Sanjeev Singh Kohli (born 30 November 1971) is a British comedian, writer and actor. He is most famous for his role as Navid in the Scottish sitcom Still Game. He also played Ramesh Majhu in the radio sitcom Fags, Mags and Bags and A.J. Jandhu in the BBC Scotland soap opera River City. Kohli has also played Norrie in BBC Four's Bob Servant Independent. He presents Sanjeev Kohli's Big Talk on the BBC Scotland channel.

Kohli was born in London to a social worker and a teacher, who had emigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1960s from India. When he was three years old they moved to Scotland. Kohli's parents could afford to move him, aged six, and his brothers to be educated by the Jesuits at St Aloysius' College, a Roman Catholic school in Central Glasgow. To pay for their children's education Kohli's parents ran a corner shop.