[3][4] Shareef has written for The Guardian,[5] Huffington Post,[6] Birmingham Mail,[7] Chortle, Beyond The Joke and Gigglebeats.
[15] He previously worked as a marketing consultant, and started performing stand-up comedy when he visited the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2013.
[19][20] He has described his comedy as "neither left-wing nor right-wing" and cites George Carlin, Omid Djalili and Bill Hicks as influences.
Due to the controversy the show generated, it was banned from being performed by its host venue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
[9] In July 2014, he won his first national award, within a year of starting his comedy career, when he beat more than 100 new comedians to be recognised as Breakthrough Act 2014.
[37][36] In August 2016 he was one of three finalists for the Asian Arts Award for Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for his show Travels with Autism.