first i would like to express my sincere condolences to the families of the deceased. and now the facts. now about the timeline. we will start in the town, yesterday at 12:26pm, a witness called the police saying herfriend 12:26pm, a witness called the police saying her friend sent her a suicide text and he was not responding to her calls. police units from the central region immediately, in a matter of minutes reacted to this call. the firefighters and the ambulances also were activated at 12:32pm. we found out that the suspect indeed has thoughts of suicide and that he is headed to the capital, prague. soon afterthat, police find that man in the town and in the following minutes, we find out that there is a device in the house that could be airborne. at around 1pm, we find out where the dead person is located, at 1:15pm. a nationwide search is launched. for this person. none prague police is invited to take part in the investigation and at 1:27pm there is a requirement from
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
And then we read it, and then when it finished, the directorsaid, 0k, let s do it again. and this time. and i said, are you giving me notes? he said yes. isaid, no, i have done these lines as well as i possibly can. you have written this as a one dimensional character. at best, if you let me improvise, i can bring this up to a two dimensional. in the 1990s, they were never going to write a three dimensional arabic character, so, what i did was i played it for laughs. because i said, if you are going to make him like some fat, smelly person, let s do it for laughs because that would be the only way that it would be acceptable for brown people to see this character. so, i played it for laughs, and i actually nearly got fired because i wasn t supposed to be funny, but that was the way i dealt with it. i navigated it by trying to raise it up to a two dimensional character. but going back to my question about maybe the way you have changed or evolved, would you take that sort of role today?
I was absolutely perfect. no, but why did you bite your tongue if you felt that you were living in this world of prejudice? actually, i m really glad that you brought that up because when i. i ve got to tell you this story. when i went for the audition, there were three pages and i had a line on each, and then we read it, and then when it finished, the directorsaid, ok, let s do it again. and this time. and i said, are you giving me notes? he said yes. isaid, no, i have done these lines as well as i possibly can. you have written this as a one dimensional character. at best, if you let me improvise, i can bring this up to a two dimensional. in the 1990s, they were never going to write a three dimensional arabic character, so, what i did was i played it for laughs. because i said, if you are going to make him like some fat, smelly person, let s do it for laughs because that would be the only way that it would be acceptable for brown people to see this character. so, i played it for laug