OMID DJALILI, LIKE? YES OR NO?

[ladybirder]

He's coming to the Theatre Royal, Brighton early next year for ONE show only. I love him but I bet the tickets will be sold out quickly. Anybody else like him?

[MarkRae]

Depends who you were...

[starone]

Oh - him, maidup. You are right I did know him when I saw him. Think he is completely useless and not funny at all. Wouldn't pay 50p to see him.

[sandyRoe]

There was a brief period, before the Ayatollah got his foot on the necks of the people, when there was a real hope for freedom in Iran.
Who but people who had profited under the old regime who have went into exile then?

[ladybirder]

I've just done a cut and paste on a bit of his biography.
Born to an Iranian journalist and photographer who had settled in London in 1957, Djalili's father was both a contributor to Iran's top newspapers and a translator for the Iranian embassy. Severing his ties with the Iranian government following the 1979 Iranian revolution, the elder Djalili opened a medical hostile for Iranian immigrants, and it was there that young Omid witnessed his father's unique ability to entertain and began to get a true sense of the cultural differences between native-born Londoners and their Iranian immigrant counterparts. His enrollment in London's multi-cultural Holland Park school also served to provide young Djalili with a strong catalog of various foreign accents that would later prove key to his success as a standup act. Djalili graduated from the University of Ulster with a degree in English and theater arts in 1988.

So that'll be a No from you then Star.