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
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Who thought that kind of humour was appropriate for white britain, to i suppose digest that humour. so, the people who gave that show in the first place were never brought to any account whereas a lot of us comedians were saying, how the hell has that guy got a tv show? that is not the kind of humour that we need right now. that is the big question, who are the people that are deciding these things? that is the big question. i am just mindful that a lot of this conversation has been about the kind of comedy that is edgy, it is cynical, it pokes fun at organised religion and cultures, it is not the sort of humour that you would expect to come from a person of faith. and yet you are a person of faith. i can t think of many well known comics who are open, explicit, about their faith. does it affect your humour? it does, very much, and i think this is where when we talk about identity politics and all this, this is where i am driven by my faith
He was, there was all this sexist humour, and then he was on newsnight and he was grilled, and it was really awful to watch. my question was, we never brought forward the people who gave him a television show in the first place, who thought that kind of humour was appropriate for white britain, to i suppose digest that humour. so, the people who gave that show in the first place were never brought to any account whereas a lot of us comedians were saying, how the hell has that guy got a tv show? that is not the kind of humour that we need right now. that is the big question, who are the people that are deciding these things? that is the big question. i am just mindful that a lot of this conversation has been about the kind of comedy that is edgy, it is cynical, it pokes fun at organised religion and cultures,