jens stoltenberg was speaking as leaders of nato countries prepare to meet at a summit in madrid on tuesday. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. what i find funny, you might find offensive. comedy challenges taste and convention and it can rouse strong reaction, as we saw at this year s 0scars when a joke earned comedian chris rock a slap in the face from the actor will smith. my guest today has spent more than 25 years finding laughs in sometimes unlikely places. 0mid djalili was born in london to iranian parents. he has thrived as a cross culture comedic chameleon, but is it possible to be funny without being mean? 0mid djalili, welcome to hardtalk. stephen sackur, my friend, my fellow presenter in the business of show, man who is so unbelievably good looking and thin that he walks into snooker hall, they start chalking his head. i am so happy to be here, this is one of my favourite shows. well, if you carry on like that, this won t be a
in sometimes unlikely places, omid djalili was born in london to iranian parents. he has thrived as a cross culture comedic chameleon, but is it possible to be funny without being mean? omid djalili, welcome to hardtalk. stephen sackur, my friend, my fellow presenter in the business of show, man who is so unbelievably good looking and thin that he walks into snooker hall, they start chalking his head. i am so happy to be here, this is one of my favourite shows. well, if you carry on like that, this won t be an interview, it will be a monologue! let me ask you this, you have been doing comedy for almost 30 years, do you find the same stuff funny today as you did back then? what a tricky question! what a way to start. that is such a tricky question. look, at the end of the day, it is a big subject now because we saw the oscars and we saw will smith smack chris rock. can i just tell you, just to speak personally, i saw the video the day after, and i bleary eyed woke up on monday
the person to do this, but hey, i will be the first person to go from the west to the east. people come from east to west but i am the first person doing it, and they actually liked it, which is great. and a final thought, for more than two years, thanks to covid, it was hard for you to be funny in front of an audience, but you are back on the road now, you have got a new tour going across the uk, you have talked about the pure joy of making a live audience laugh. how much did you miss it? oh, my god. i missed it so much that when i did a zoom gig. can you imagine doing a zoom gig and just before. it s not like we muted everyone, butjust before a punch line, you hear someone going, martin, can you let the cat in! it was a disaster for comedy, and i often used to take my computer into the toilet and say, here is the sound of my career, and i would press the flush, and that would be my toilet flushing, and that is kind of what i thought. if you speak to any comedian now, i have spoken
the cat in! it was a disaster for comedy, and i often used to take my computer into the toilet and say, here is the sound of my career, and i would press the flush, and that would be my toilet flushing, and that is kind of what i thought. if you speak to any comedian now, i have spoken to people likejimmy carr, david baddiel, we all say the joy of being out there is because comedy should be in a theatre because that is where you are enjoying it and you are actually getting a physiological kick from it, it is notjust watching it on your phone or on your tablet, you are getting a physiological high, you can think about it, you can dream about it, and you can sometimes have the benefit for about a week after seeing a live show. and you can even bring it into the hardtalk studio. that has been my greatest pleasure. it has been an honour and i thank you so much forjoining me. thanks a lot. thank you.
kind of what i thought. if you speak to any comedian now, i have spoken to people likejimmy carr, david baddiel, we all say the joy of being out there is because comedy should be in a theatre because that is where you are enjoying it and you are actually getting a physiological kick from it, it is notjust watching it on your phone or on your tablet, you are getting a physiological high, you can think about it, you can dream about it, and you can sometimes have the benefit for about a week after seeing a live show. and you can even bring it into the hardtalk studio. that has been my greatest pleasure. it has been an honour and i thank you so much forjoining me. thanks a lot. thank you. hello. for those of you who have extended your easter break