omid djalili, welcome to hardtalk.en sackur, my friend, my fellow presenter in the business of show, man who is so unbelievably good looking and thin that he walks into snooker hall, they start chalking his head. i am so happy to be here, this is one of my favourite shows. well, if you carry on like that, this might be an interview, it will be a monologue! let me ask you this, you have been doing comedy for almost 30 years, do you find the same stuff funny today as you did back then? what a tricky question! what a way to start. that is such a tricky question. look, at the end of the day, it is a big subject now because we saw the oscars and we saw will smith smack chris rock. can i just tell you, just to speak personally, i saw the video the day after, and i bleary eyed woke up on monday morning, and i just thought that will smith had smacked chris rock for a bad joke, and my first thought was, my god, if they are slapping chris rock for a bad joke, my act is going to be like a bavarian dance festival, it isjust going

my guest today has spent more than 25 years finding laughs in sometimes unlikely places, 0mid djalili