While studying at the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management of Bogazici University he started drawing comics for the Turkish humor magazine Leman In August 1995 he did his first standup comedy show in Leman Culture Center performing with no serious career intentions as a comedian However after the positive response of the audience he continued his show to attract larger crowds in Besiktas Cultural Center where he has appeared in over a thousand standup comedy shows since becoming so popular that tickets have sold for 250TL approx US140 His movie career started in 1998 with a costarring role in the comedy Everythings Gonna Be Great 1998 directed by Ömer Vargi and continued with a role in Vizontele 2001 directed by Yilmaz Erdogan and Ömer Faruk Sorak He achieved his greatest success by starring in and writing bigbudget sciencefiction parody GORA 2004 also directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak which despite spending several years in production because of financial and other technical problems became a boxoffice hit and described by Rekin Teksoy as a strong sign that showed that popular cinema was successful in appealing to wide audiences He maintained this success with a starring role in the comedy feature movie Magic Carpet Ride 2005 AKA Magic Carpet Ride also directed by Yilmaz Erdogan for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the 11th Sadri Alisik Awards and his directorial debut with The Magician 2006 codirected by Ali Taner Baltaci for which he won Best Actor at the 34th Brussels International Independent Film Festival and 12th Sadri Alisik Awards He has since repeated his box office success with a sequel to GORA 2004 called AROG 2008 also codirected by Ali Taner Baltaci and comedy Western parody called Yahsi Bati The Ottoman Cowboys 2009 directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak That same year he costarred alongside veteran actor Sener Sen in the police drama Hunting Season 2010 written and directed by Yavuz Turgul and made a special appearance in drama Zefir 2010 written and directed by Belma Bas After two years he also acted in Ferzan Özpeteks A Magnificent Haunting 2012 After he filmed his last standup comedy show CM101MMXI Fundamentals 2013 directed by Murat Dündar he announced that for the next few years he will stop his standup comedy shows to have a rest Along his professional career he has won numerous awards and appeared in more than 4000 standup comedy shows took part in 10 movies and contributed as a dubbing performer in 4 movies
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