Omid Djalili
British stand-up comedian and actor
"Which side shall I comb it over?"
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
'Do you have a hobby?' It was a journalist. I went into a tirade: 'How dare you presume I'm a dabbler!'
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗
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Richard Coles
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“I could never love you like that.”
Cybill Shepherd
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A review that said I had the charm of a hamster.
The second agent I had said: “The thing is, you look like something but then you open your mouth.” So I got myself a sketch show and left, and she lost out.
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A wonderful, terribly exciting disease.
Just thinking about unsafe sex.
That I live a life with no contact with arseholes.
A 'no' is free.
Johnny Mathis - he is so perfect.
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