Omid Djalili at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2014
- Acclaimed comedian and actor Omid Djalili has produced a joyously funny memoir about growing up and finding fame as a young Iranian in London. He beautifully captures his unique childhood in his parents’ guesthouse, describing meetings with an array of remarkable characters and his own desire to escape. His story offers an intriguing perspective on British society today and in this event, filmed live at Edinburgh International Book Festival he talks to author and critic Peter Guttridge.
He is defiantly one of most funniest comedian in Britain
Iranians are amazing people, and im from Kuwait.
I think Kuwaitis are amazing people
Love you brother
where is kuwait ?? i cant wait for your response !
@@newlifenowife3522 it's a small nation between Iraq , Saudi Arabia and Iran
It’s our pleasure ☺️
I liked him until I saw this and now I really like him, he is so interesting.
Omid's impeccable comic timing is amazing. A great entertainer !!!
Omid is amazing!he is one of the best stand up comedian in the world.so funny and impressive person👍💓
This interview of his made me buy his book today. Love this guy
I pissed myself " it's all right Jake, mommy's here know" and his mother's reaction... 😂😂😂😂😂
you pissed yourself ????? don t get married.................it won t work out.
You Sir are my latest great discovery. Thanks for being real.
One of my favourite comedian! Thanks for all you do and the comfort you've provided me with your humour. I love to visit Iran one day, and experience some of the capture you singlehandedly introduced to the World. Great 👌
Having grown up with this lovely man, I can tell you there is no off button! He’s just constantly entertaining - oh and a brilliant footballer!
love him. he's aaaawsome
Baha’i’s are truly inspiring. Love them!
This reminded me of something when i was a kid. A ball or something went into a very muddy field in a place where the cattle would be fed. Some of it was liquid and was only a few inches deep. This was fine. I was wearing rubber boots. It was the bits on the edged that were frozen that were dangerous. They were a lot deeper. I didnt realize and thought they were solid. The ice cracked and my boot went in. I wasnt worried, so i shouted to my sister to get my dad to come and help pull me out. Before he had a chance to come, I saw a cow heading for me. I wasnt able to move my boots, which were stuck in the mud, and scared of being trampled, I pulled my feet out of my boots and ran. I was just reminded of this charming little incident from all those years ago, because even after a change of clothes and a long hot shower, i still stank. Obviously this is nothing compared to Omid's ordeal. If my "stuck in shit experience" was bronze, his was definitely platinum.
THE most impressive persoon among us all.
Lovely man.. hope to change Rejim in Iran and back all Iranian to home
Possibly the funniest thing I have ever witnessed ! Thanks for sharing ! Omid is a genius !
Combination of comedy and Philosophy , comedians are super intelligent ppl can control humans in right direction not in religious way that’s him ... one of kind
that was just an avidly brilliant story, Omid
So, glad I bumped into this video. I love his comedy and ability to fully understand and straddle two cultures. His bit about his mother I very familiar theme of Iranian mothers. Hilarious.
He is really funny, naturally funny man👍
Love him
Nima - Me too ! A very intelligent and enlightened man with a lot of wit thrown in .His book is very funny , particularly with regards to his A levels and time in Ireland .Well worth a read !
Most entertaining person to listen
Totally enjoyed it
Such an underrated performer
Not really. He has had plenty of fame and performed in front of royalty etc.
love to see his show great ukraininan
The Persian sentences are so familiar from my childhood.
My favourite comedian is Omid jalili
very interesting interview and i even like him more after watching this interview . my favourite part was reading the book himself i didnt want it to stop really . funny and literate gentleman . we wish you all the best sir .nd looking forward to see more stand ups nd movies.
He knows he's football too 😂😂😂
enjoyed every second
Now how do you get the chinese to appreciate something like this ??? 😂😂😂😂👍
This is how you break down barriers with humour ... not with confusion institutes 😂😂😂
A brilliant entertainer!
I love Omid.
Love you, Omid. Do you give inspirational talks to kids about not giving up? To find their potential?
You are the best comedian ever.
You are the best!
Great Commedian.
This guy is brilliant
"watch TV, learn English", that was my path
We are sooooo similar Omid jan.
omid(امید) means hope.
jalil(جلیل) means beauty
ghalil( قلیل) means less
Brilliant
bestttt
Great birtish. Man
Lovely omid
😂❤😂
nice
Love to see the man who put fat into fatwa hahahaha
btw Jalili means beautiful.
Jalili mean is in the mean of Glory
zibaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Both interviewer and interviewee has big honkers :)
😎 👍👍👍👍👍
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.",
Eric Cantona.
Dear Mr Jalili I have heard on few of your show that you saying ' Jalili means less'. How is that possible, can tell me how. As far as know Jalil means ( ba shekooh va bozorg) magnificent and big. can you please help me to understand this please? Thanks
I believe he's saying that for the sake of joke
Tacke it easy man '!
You're such a smart person! No one really believes Djalili means less. We all know he is telling it for fun.
Today you read MOULANA(Rumi) and still understand it but not shakespeare.
He is so funny
He was born in London... Interviewer so how long before you went to the homeland?
"Anyone in from overseas?"
"YEAH.........YOU MATE"
Joe brand is so suitable for you
Exactly, how come djalili is translated as less by him? I thought Khalili means less in Arabic and Persian
Strange that he adopts a Glasgwegian accent when mentioning Morningside...
His name was not Rumy or Romy, his name was jalaluddin Mohamed balkhi , he was born in North of Afghanistan not Iran. his given name was Romy.
Rumi means Roman. Where he was taken to as a child was Byzantium at the time, to flee the Mongol invasions. He was born in Balkh and wrote in Persian.
@@kayem3824 are you teaching me about my country, I know everything about my country
@@omegadragon2121 You don't necessarily know more about your country just because you are from that country. You are not a scholar most probably. Some scholar somewhere in an American or an European university knows more about your country than you and other people. Chicago University is a center of such studies for that geography. Which country are you from anyway?
@@kayem3824 if you don't know about your homeland , then your a crazy idiot , I know everything about my country.
Rumi "MOLANA"was obviously one of the most influential and well known PERSIAN poets . I don't understand what the F*** is wrong with Turkish and Afghani people !!!!!!! dear Afghani and Turkish fellows for your information if you don't know anything about history your countries were AND USED TO BE part of Persian empire at the time , therefore Rumi was born , lived and died in Persia his own country and all of his poems WERE IN FARSI !!!!!!
Omid = Hope
Djalili = Less
He likes brown shoes..
Just sayin'... the presenter is good, but that "yeah yeah yeah" would get you smacked in the teeth in ( *some parts of* ) Ireland...it's seen as patronising and dismissively brusque all in one go.(Actually having listened to him for a bit longer, Peter Guttridge seems like a lovely man, it's just a local thing)
I LOVE *Omid* he's a funny fecker!, and hearing him *DISMISSED!* like that made me twitch a bit.
Oh *aaargh!* how my nerves were ramped up by the effortless tension building of the *CESSPIT STORY!*
Oh man,,you're joking about you're family name,,jalily means grate ,,good very grate,,,,ghalily means less
i agree with you it means great
Djalili does not mean less. The word in Persian for less is Qalil and not Djalil. Djalil means glorious.
Clearly you don't know how jokes work.
Rumi was an Afghan poet. His family fled due to mongol invasion. They went to Turkey. To this day, Rumi out sells Shakespeare
Rumi "MOLANA"was obviously one of the most influential and well known PERSIAN poets . I don't understand what the F*** is wrong with Turkish and Afghani people !!!!!!! dear Afghani and Turkish fellows for your information if you don't know anything about history your countries were AND USED TO BE part of Persian empire at the time , therefore Rumi was born , lived and died in Persia his own country and all of his poems WERE IN FARSI !!!!!!
AL DOM persia had different capitals in different places at different times and one of them was afghanistan, persia wasnt only iran.
@@alamodel turks has nothing but to still other nations traditions as they always have
There was no Afghanistan back then. Get real! the whole region was part of Persia whether you like it or not.
Afghan means Pashtun, and Rumi wasn’t Pashtun he was Persian and his poems are in Farsi/Dari and not Pashtu
Also the definition of madness is repeating the same behavior that doesn't work!
His mother spoke Turkish?
No turkish
So he went from the Iranian troubles to the Irish troubles
.................
He is by far anything like a bridge between East and West. This doesn't mean he is bad, but he has very little understanding of Iranian culture and even Rumi that he quotes.
Shame about the repeated use of "sh*t" :-( :-(