[4] In August 2011, she performed her debut show Please Hold – You're Being Transferred to a UK Based Asian Representative at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival[4] at the Laughing Horse @ Finnegan's Wake,[5] which was directed by Deborah Frances-White.
[1] In August 2011, Azmat also featured on BBC Radio 4's Front Row[6] and a producer invited her to perform at the Cape Town Festival 2012.
[15] In January 2016, Azmat appeared on This Week where she criticised David Cameron's push for English language lessons for Muslim women to help them resist the lure of Islamic extremism.
[17] From 2018 to 2020 Azmat hosted three series of the podcast No Country for Young Women with fellow comedian Monty Onanuga for BBC Sounds.
[22] The theme of the book was partially inspired by an article Azmat wrote for Metro in 2019 titled "Horny Muslim women like me aren’t supposed to exist during Ramadan".
[23] She sent the article to an editor who felt that pop culture and social commentary was lacking the perspective of sexually liberated Muslim women.