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Omid Djalili: Can jokes be funny without being mean?

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You're Not Moslem, So What Right Do You Have to Make That Kind of Joke?

i reflect on it now on my shoulder. Those were jokes i needed to, i suppose, get into western, liberal, metropolitan society for people to like me. But that was a kind of joke that would get me into the hearts of british people, sadly. And i actually bring that gag up as a kind of gag i would never do now, and the audience laugh even more,. I talk about their white privilege as well. That's o saying as also, people need to know me as well, i'm not a moslem. I'm not a terrorist.

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