Omid Djalili

With teddy bears and not genocide making the news in fundamentalist Muslim lands, a new kind of offensive Khartoum if you like, it's left to comedy to try and rationalize this often anachronistic and angry religion and the culture it bleeds. Omid Djalili is the Middle East's Comedy attaché to the U.K! Best known for playing third Muslim terrorists from the left in big Hollywood movies he is that Middle Eastern stereotype who is quite happy to be exactly that, bagging most of the film and TV work going to reward his submissiveness to the stereotype. I mean can you imagine the reaction if these roles were advertised in the Stage? 'Asian males that look like ...