player himself laughed because he knew that it is good to laugh at these things. that is why i think chris rock was slightly misunderstood because he had heard, he knew very well what he was doing, and that was a joke that at the time i believe was cleared by the academy, because he is there to roast some of the nominees. you mean it was chris rock in sympathy. i think the idea is you are losing your hair but you look great, you look like gijane. let s go back a little bit to your beginnings. raised by iranian parents who had moved to london who then couldn t go back to iran, so you are a real genuine londoner but actually i think your first language was farsi when you were a real small kid. it was. and you go to a london school, and you were a bit of an outsider, and ijust wonder whether that difficulty of being seen as an outsider lead you to use humour as some sort of defence mechanism? is that where it all began? i think so, yeah. i was very aware that even though i went to a multi
to iran, so you are a real genuine londoner but actually i think your first language was farsi when you were a real small kid. it was. and you would go to a london school, and you were a bit of an outsider, and ijust wonder whether that difficulty of being seen as an outsider lead you to use humour as some sort of defence mechanism? is that where it all began? i think so, yeah. i was very aware that even though i went to a multicultural school, both at primary and secondary school, i did feel that i was the wrong colour, i had the wrong name. so, when i realised i was very unattractive to girls, when i was in those very difficult adolescent ages, 13,111, humour became very important to me. i started doing sketches at school to try and become validated. we often say comedians, you know, we are very hurt individuals, we are doing this to heal the wounds of our childhood and we need the laughter of strangers to validate us. but that is true.
parcels but a late night dash around bath proved successful. absolute madness. infrastructure is crazy. of course we have lost so many service stations over the years, and it s ridiculous. in the end last night, i actually got some diesel at 12:45am to fill up my van so i could do my deliveries today. where fuel has got through, queues are disappearing. the effects were obvious to see. the causes more difficult to determine. the government maintained there was no fuel supply shortage but that didn t stop the panic. why? it s our defence mechanism really coming into play. i can t control what the government will say. the next stage of lockdown might be but what i can control is putting some petrol into my car. that immediately gives me a sense of relief. if i ve been going round, paradoxically using up that little
i think it could be a defence mechanism depending on your environment. even growing up as a kid, i was a proper good, placid, happy go lucky child, and as soon as i went to secondary school it was like going into a zoo so i had to get this kind of armour on me, do you know what i m saying? that is where your masculinity starts coming from, for me. it s sad, though, isn t it, because i suppose that s the moment that you stop talking about your emotions so much and put up a mask a bit. i think as men we struggle to do the emotions kind of thing. - the masculinity obviously. is a front for a lot of things that we are trying to hide. would you, like, cry in front of your friends? you don t want to appear weak, especially in front of a group . of guys, coming into a new group i of people, you don t want to appear that you are less of a man than the man sitting nextl to you or standing next to you, do you know what i mean? - for me, i find it impossible to cry. like, i cover my emotions with