[8] In 2014, he was nominated for the Laughing Horse Comedy Club's New Act of the Year competition.

[9] In 2017 he was included in both The Guardian's and The Telegraph's rundowns of the funniest jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe.

[10][11] In 2018 Falafel was in Dave channel's, The Mirror's, The Evening Standard's, The Scotsman's and i News's rundowns of the top jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe[12][13][14][15][16] and won an award for his festival poster.

[17] Falafel secured a three-book contract with HarperCollins in 2016, after asking for a publisher to approach him in a tweet.

In 2021, off the back of his Art Club YouTube videos,[20] Falafel signed a two-book deal with Puffin to create his first middle grade chapter books called Trixie Pickle Art Avenger[21] about a child who becomes their school's version of Banksy.