391 - Omid Djalili
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Back on tour after a period of self-reflection, comedy powerhouse Omid Djalili is admirably candid as he shares his concerns about the material that made him famous. Taking to heart some stinging criticism from his son, he explores the tension between his phenomenal commitment to live performance and his craving for validation
We talk about the tendency of white middle-class reviewers to froth at his otherness; whether or not his “everything and the kitchen sink” approach armed them against him; and find out what advice a young Michael McIntyre rejected…
20 mins of extra content available exclusively to the Insiders Club includes Omid on how Whoopi Goldberg inspired him when they worked together, an amazing true story about his approach to casting directors in the early days of his movie career, and the truth behind his mould-breaking audition for his key role in The Mummy (1999)…
Go to www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders for this and much more, including the exclusive Insiders Q&As with Nish Kumar, James Acaster and Fern Brady and the incredible “self-help for comedians” special with Amanda Donnet.
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TW: @Omid9
“Omid Djalili: The Good Times Tour” will be at London’s Eventim Apollo on 18th December and touring the UK until November 2022. For all tour dates and tickets visit www.omidnoagenda.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Stu here just popping in before the show starts to let you know that my comedy special |
| 0:04.2 | I need you alive is now available at Stuart Goldsmith dot com |
| 0:08.1 | There's a link there where you can watch it on an breathtaking array of places for the rest of the month |
| 0:13.2 | Including the 800 pound gorilla website Amazon Prime in the UK and US X-Box |
| 0:17.8 | God knows how they do that as well as loads of other links to catch it on audio go to Stuart Goldsmith dot com and |
| 0:23.6 | Watch this show that I am staggeringly proud of and do watch it if you can because it's very pretty |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, welcome to the show Stu Goldsmith here today. I'm very pleased to be talking to omid Jalili who I actually interviewed about six or seven years ago as part of the |
| 0:53.7 | Chautel book festival and I had intended at the time I'd arranged with Chautel that I would then release that episode as an episode of Comcom |
| 1:01.0 | But in the end, I felt that it was it was too centered on the book and it was more like a kind of promotional |
| 1:06.8 | Interview so and and less like a kind of let's get into it Comcom interview and I've just reminded myself of not just of Joe Rogan by saying |
| 1:15.5 | Let's get into it |
| 1:16.1 | I've reminded myself of the incredible Tim Hidecker spoof of Joe Rogan, which is currently doing the rounds on the internet |
| 1:21.4 | Please look at that. There is a two hour long YouTube video of it, but it loops after about an hour. I'm reliably informed. It is |
| 1:28.2 | Perfect, but my point is before we get into not getting into it |
| 1:32.1 | I think that I'm really glad I waited. Do you remember |
| 1:36.3 | Do you remember the Angela Barnes episode of this podcast some years ago in the last four or five years where we said that I'd actually |
| 1:42.2 | Recorded an episode with her decided not to put it out because she didn't have that much of a body of work upon |
| 1:47.9 | Which to reflect and then we did it when she did and it was great. Well very similar things with this episode with omid in that |
| 1:55.3 | We right from the get-go are talking about his feelings |
| 1:59.7 | About his former existence as a comic. Is that fair? |
| 2:04.2 | I was not existence, but his former act his former material |
| 2:07.7 | His his way of being a comic his way of performing and it is something that he has really reflected on and right from the off |
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