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The Owen Jones Podcast

Omid Djalili on comedy and COVID, Sean Lock and the gig from hell

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Omid Djalili is a comedy star, and we have a lot to talk about - comedy in the time of COVID, is COVID something you can joke about, the loss of the icon Sean Lock, and his first ever gig which is so unbelievably cringeworthy you've got to hear it to believe it.


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0:00.0

If you're watching D-Like and subscribe or subscribe to the podcast, I am so, so honored to be

0:05.5

joined by Omed. Hello, hello, hello, hello. Hello. Hey Omed, great, great, really lovely to,

0:10.1

to speak to you finally. This is, this is a wonderful way to spend some time, so thank you for all

0:13.9

this. It is, it is, by the way, you're, you're looking glowing, you don't mind me saying. Am I?

0:18.3

Yeah, I'd say pretty glowing. I've moved to the country, I'm in Suffolk right now, so it's,

0:23.7

it's so much better for your health, for your mental health, that the air is lovely around here and

0:28.8

I've actually got the curtains closed, there's some kind of light bouncing off me, but as long as I

0:32.7

look well, that's all I have. Yeah, because you do realise just how much the difference that makes,

0:38.2

because during the first lockdown, after a few weeks, I remember there was all these stories

0:42.7

about animals reclaiming the world because humans advanced, but the air in London was noticeably

0:49.7

so much cleaner and it made a difference. It did, I remember first seeing that because Iran was

0:56.0

hit very badly with Covid and the first pictures came from Tehran, which is the one of the most

1:02.2

polluted cities, about six weeks in and the skies were blue, there was no pollution. They showed

1:08.4

it before and after, Iran from the mountains, there's like a thick smog and then it all gone. So yeah,

1:13.5

things are, you know, it's probably blessing in disguise. I know exactly. They did actually,

1:18.5

there was a study originally that suggests that some people's lives would have been saved because

1:22.0

obviously having pollution kills, more people, okay, pollution kills, more people globally,

1:27.1

annually than cigarettes smoking. So it does. Let's start a comedy because you are a brilliant

1:34.7

and celibateist kind of comic. Can I just tell you one thing? You just froze on my picture for a

1:40.3

second and what happens is like on zooms, you freeze and you come back really quickly. I know,

1:45.2

people have this, you know, yeah, I was talking to someone, I was talking to someone recently,

1:50.1

and they were trying to say something and I don't know what happened, but he just went quite

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