Twenty years after Goodness Gracious Me, Ali Shahalom and Aatif Nawaz’s sketch show is a welcome jolt of diversity – even if it’s hardly cutting-edge If you were a British Asian in the 90s you will viscerally recall the moment when you first saw Goodness Gracious Me . I was a moody teenager watching telly in bed with the lights off, presumably waiting for something presented by Dani Behr to come on, and it was the sketch about the Asian University. “We send you out into the world having learned the real value of education,” Meera Syal was saying in a bright RP accent, hair manically GHD-ed in the futile 90s fashion. “Pharmacy is better than law … accountancy is better than engineering … and medicine is better than anything else you can think of.” My God, it was hilarious. I was so tickled I got out of bed and ventured into the sitting room where, lo, my first-generation Indian parents were also gawping at this foreign visitor to our home: a BBC comedy sketch show made by and for brown people. I joined them on