FUNNY MAN

After selling out theatres across the UK, comic Omid Djalili is bringing the laughs to Dubai

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It’s been a long time since Omid Djalili opened a show with a belly dance and an exaggerated Arabic accent. Sure, he used to amp up a few stereotypes for effect, before shocking his audience by breaking out his well-to-do London accent for a riff on racial stereotypes, but these days the comic is far too well known in the UK for the set up to work.

In fact, if you’re going to see Djalili playing to his Iranian heritage any time soon it’ll likely be on the big screen; Hollywood having embraced him as its go-to ‘middle aged man of Middle Eastern origin’.

But despite a list of film credits that runs the gamut from the Oscar-winning