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
As a theatre show where Audience Participation is essential. And tomasz has the weekend weather. The squeaked looking a little mixed. I think some of us might have to run for cover today from a few showers the weekend. Tomorrow is looking mostly sunny. Good morning. First our main story. Tensions are rising over gilbraltars position during brexit, after the eu gave spain a potential veto on any future deal for the british territory. Last night, the government said it would stand up for gibraltars interests during negotiations. The enclave has accused spain of trying to manipulate discussions, in order to further its 300 year old sovereignty claims. Mark lobel reports. Gibraltar has been in british hands in 1713. It shares a border with spain, but rejects any spanish claim of sovereignty. The current proposals mean a deal between the uk and the eu would not apply to gibraltar without an additional agreement between the uk and spain. Gibraltars Chief Minister has fiercely rejected this a
As a theatre show where Audience Participation is essential. And tomasz has the weekend weather. The squeaked looking a little mixed. I think some of us might have to run for cover today from a few showers the weekend. Tomorrow is looking mostly sunny. Good morning. First our main story. Tensions are rising over gilbraltars position during brexit, after the eu gave spain a potential veto on any future deal for the british territory. Last night, the government said it would stand up for gibraltars interests during negotiations. The enclave has accused spain of trying to manipulate discussions, in order to further its 300 year old sovereignty claims. Mark lobel reports. Gibraltar has been in british hands in 1713. It shares a border with spain, but rejects any spanish claim of sovereignty. The current proposals mean a deal between the uk and the eu would not apply to gibraltar without an additional agreement between the uk and spain. Gibraltars Chief Minister has fiercely rejected this a
As a theatre show where Audience Participation is essential. And tomasz has the weekend weather. The squeaked looking a little mixed. I think some of us might have to run for cover today from a few showers the weekend. Tomorrow is looking mostly sunny. Good morning. First our main story. Tensions are rising over gilbraltars position during brexit, after the eu gave spain a potential veto on any future deal for the british territory. Last night, the government said it would stand up for gibraltars interests during negotiations. The enclave has accused spain of trying to manipulate discussions, in order to further its 300 year old sovereignty claims. Mark lobel reports. Gibraltar has been in british hands in 1713. It shares a border with spain, but rejects any spanish claim of sovereignty. The current proposals mean a deal between the uk and the eu would not apply to gibraltar without an additional agreement between the uk and spain. Gibraltars Chief Minister has fiercely rejected this a
We can be ajew, or you can be lgbtq or you can be whoever you are, as long as we understand we are all fundamentally one. if we understand that, then the comedy will be easier to do. you are currently making comedy in farsi. how is your farsi? not very good. well, it better improve, because you want to win a big audience in iran on bbc persian, you are doing a comedy chat show. and i am just wondering whether you think the humour that is fundamentally, you know, it is about 50 odd years living in london, being brought up in this cosmopolitan and diverse city, is that humour going to work in iran? well, apparently it has. it is now. these are not my figures but the bbc figures, it is now the most watched comedy show on earth. they told me it was a minimum of 12 million people watched it. the only negative comment we have seen is that 0mid djalili s persian is similar to the english