Career
Kohli starred in Meet the Magoons for Channel 4, co-written by his brother Hardeep, as Surjit Magoon and has appeared in several episodes of the BBC comedy series Look Around You as Synthesiser Patel. He was the former presenter of the BBC's Asian Network and has previously written for Goodness Gracious Me, The Big Breakfast and Chewin' the Fat, which was also written by future Still Game co-stars, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill.
In December 2006, the Sunday Mail revealed that Kohli would be starring in the 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.
On August 21, 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 February 2008, it was announced that he would play the role of God in the video for Glasgow band Attic Lights single 'God'
In 2011, Sanjeev appeared on Scottish tea-time magazine show, The Hour on STV. He co-hosted on two separate weeks (ten episodes), alongside main presenter Michelle McManus.
In 2012 Sanjeev appeaed on the Channel 4 comedy program Fresh Meat as a dentistry lecturer Dr Minaj.
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