Source: The National
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100412/FOREIGN/704119940/1135/NEWS
Portly, besuited and bald, Omid Djalili glides into the spotlight with his remarkably graceful, trademark belly-dance. He sports a winning grin and swings his microphone suggestively at midriff level.
Like all successful comedians, he has his audience tittering before he even opens his mouth. Then he trills: “I am Iranian, I love uranium.”
The audience in London cracks up. Many are Iranian expatriates. Djalili, a London-born Iranian stand-up comedian with his own BBC 1 television show, is immensely popular with Iranians in Britain and the wider diaspora – all proud of his success.
“Please, please, I’m begging you, come to Dubai, you are so funny,” enthuses one Iranian admirer living in the UAE, on Djalili’s website.