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What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel

What The F*** Is Going On In Iran?

What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel

Mike J Benwell

Comedy, Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this special extended interview, Mark talks to comedian Omid Djalili about the situation in Iran.  Informative, passionate and funny, the conversation covers topics including what the possible outcomes are, what we can do to help – and whether Omid was supporting Iran in the World Cup. Get ad-free extended episodes, early access and exclusive content on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wtfisgoingonpod Follow What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel on Twitter @wtfisgoingonpod Follow Omid Djalili @omid9 And visit our website www.whatthefisgoingonpodcast.co.uk for more information. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Now, any week that you're trying to work out what the fuck is going on, you need the most expert of advice. And if you were this week trying to find the expert, the expert, the subjects on

0:51.2

which they would need to be experts on would be football, Iran.

0:56.0

Unfortunately, we couldn't find anyone who knew anything much about those subjects.

1:00.0

So instead we've got Omid Jalili.

1:02.0

How are you?

1:03.0

I'm very well, Mark. It's lovely to see you.

1:06.0

And we're very honored to have you today as well, because you're about to perform royal duties no less for my sins yes

1:13.2

i uh you know i was asked to do this by i tv who said look it's it's come from the palace

1:18.9

they want you to do it because i i hosted an event for the queen uh at the platinum jubilee and um it was a horse show and there was a joke I did which honestly

1:31.7

Mark you'll know as a comic sometimes things you work for a week on something that something

1:37.5

pops into your head I think shall I shall I shouldn't I the context was that she had missed the state

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