Shappi Khorsandi: Revolution, assassination plots, and stand-up comedy

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore || JOE Media

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

You know comedian Shappi Khorsandi from Live at the Apollo and her legendary shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, but Shappi was learning how to make people laugh well before she picked up the mic.In this funny, fascinating, and at times emotional interview with James O’Brien, Shappi shares the story of her family fleeing Iran in the face of revolution, the uncovering of an assassination plot against her father and the paranoia that revelation instilled in her family, and her struggles adapting to life in Britain. But like any good comedian, Shappi manages to find the funny in almost all of it.Head to http://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote to vote for the show to win the Listener's Choice Award. Voting closes on 17th May 2018. Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to Unfiltered with James O'Brien, brought to you by Joe.
0:07.0	Hello I'm James O'Brien and this is the 28th episode of Unfiltered featuring the
0:17.2	comedian and writer Shappy Korsandy although actually that description is
0:22.3	a little inadequate when you look at the full scale and scope of her life and her career.
0:27.0	You can buy tickets for her new show, Mistress and Miss fit at chappy.co. UK. And given that I've only just realized that this is the second
0:36.0	contestant on the last series of I'm a celebrity that we've had on unfiltered
0:41.0	I'm going to try and get through the entire interview without mentioning it once. You know you're president of the Humanist Society?
0:54.1	Do you, does the word,
0:55.3	does the word activist sit comfortably on your shoulder?
0:58.2	I don't think so.
0:59.2	I think activists are much more active than I am.
1:01.6	I have an activist. are much more active than I am. Inactivist.
1:04.0	I have a bit of that.
1:05.0	I'll be an inactivist, not the revolution.
1:07.0	But let someone else...
1:08.0	I don't think I deserve the...
1:10.0	I don't deserve activists.
1:12.0	I think there are activists that would kind of look over really mate.
1:14.4	So what word would we use because you don't confine your advocacy to comedy and...
1:20.8	No I don't. Do you know what it is, James? I get asked to support certain things and I do, I just get asked and I like it and it's interesting for me and it makes me feel, oh yeah, I can't live without variety in my life I get bored so quickly and
1:36.4	One of the things I I cherish the most of my life is the opportunity to meet new people all the time and talk and move forward and it's fun it's fun it's fun
1:45.2	and one of the reasons presumably that you get asked to represent interest is because
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