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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Comedian Bilal Zafar - Islamophobia, muslim dating and healing

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to the comedian Bilal Zafar about the award he didn’t win, comedy, moving from Manchester to London, being a ‘novelty act’, Brexit, compassion, privilege, perspective, islamophobia, hope, faith, religion, atheism, muslim dating, fear of dating, having a type, buying new clothes, racism and healing. Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus Jingle by Bailey Lenart A huge thanks to Phoenix Artist Club in London for letting me record my podcast and do my shows with them. Special thanks to Peter Dunbar. Made of Human Podcast online: Twitter: @podmoh Facebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcast Web: madeofhumanpodcast.com Patreon: patreon.com/mohpod Sofie Hagen online: Twitter: @SofieHagen Facebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komiker Web: sofiehagen.com Instagram: @sofiehagendk

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0:00.0

It gets better because it has to get better.

0:06.0

We're all made of human.

0:10.0

You're listening to the Made of Human Podcast. I'm Sophie Hagen. I'm your host and this is my podcast.

0:18.0

It's a podcast in which I try to figure out how to be human, how to do life, how to adult, I guess. I'm from Denmark by the

0:27.5

way that's the odd accent you can hear. If you've never listened to this

0:32.3

podcast before it's a chat between me and a friend or a person that I like are usually a comedian

0:39.4

if you have listened to this before it's still same thing, same concept whether you've listened or not.

0:45.0

This guest that we have on in this episode is Bilal Saffa.

0:50.0

I had only met him once when we recorded this but I have seen him on the internet a lot and I've heard

0:57.8

amazing things and he's just he proved to be a really just a really nice intelligent guy and I it pains me to say because not that but it

1:10.1

pains me that I learned I learned a lot from it like he he kind of inspired me to

1:16.9

become a better person oh yeah that's always you know when you talk to someone and then you go,

1:24.3

oh, this person is so much, you know, in touch with himself

1:30.1

than I am with me in my head, you know, I don't actually don't remember how old he is now, but because I'm a few years because, so he was nominated for the best newcomer award, which is the award that we talk about in the show and I won that the year, two years, the year before him.

1:47.0

Yeah, I guess the year before him.

1:49.0

So, before he was nominated, so that's what we talk about in the beginning.

1:52.0

Anyways, he is probably still on tour so you should definitely go and check that out and

1:58.9

go and see his show as soon as there's a date near me I'm going to go and see it because I've heard amazing things.

2:04.7

So go and check that out and support him the same way as you support.

2:08.6

All of the guests I've had in this podcast.

2:12.4

And hey, announcement, I am, I've released my show, the show that I've

2:18.2

been yabbing on about since I started doing this podcast, the show called Shimashyatta've released it as a as a download so if you go

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