Shaparak Khorsandi
- 51 years old
- English
- Actor and stand-up comedian
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Comedians' shows pulled over unpaid bills
Josh Widdicombe, Jeremy Hardy, Seann Walsh, Shappi Khorsandi and Marcus Brigstocke have all had gigs dropped from the forthcoming programme of Secombe Theatre in Sutton because of the dispute with very little notice. Widdicombe was due to play there only next week. Their agency, Off The Kerb, axed the shows in a row over £3,432 of box office money they say they are owed for another of their clients, Mark Steel, three months ago.
Chortle, 11th August 2016Political comedy isn't dead
Serious issues are back on the stand-up agenda. Here are the Fringe's hottest topics.
Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times, 7th August 201650 must-see comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe (Link expired)
Here at WOW 247 we've pooled together our comedy brains to pick out a whopping 50 shows we think make a good starting point for any Fringe adventurer.
Matthew Dunne-Miles, Finlay Greig and Craig Leiper, WOW247, 2nd August 2016Comedians recall their first gigs
Shappi Khorsandi felt as if she'd walked on the moon. Isy Suttie watched a man change a dressing on a wound as she spoke. Omid Djalili fell off the stage. So how did the first gigs of Paul Merton, Susan Calman and other top comics go?
Chris Wiegand and Anna Menin, The Guardian, 1st August 2016Do the Right Thing, the jolly panel-show podcast, is back. Now on its sixth series (crikey), and hosted by Danielle Ward, it is not only a right thing but a good one too. More manic and edgy than the traditional radio panel-show offering, but not so much that it makes you think the dread word "wacky", the programme's guests last week were Richard Osman and Shappi Khorsandi. Khorsandi was her usual, likably haphazard self, and I am very much enjoying Osman's recent transformation from televisual factoid guy into one of the funniest men in media. He really does make me laugh. Regulars Michael Legge (grumpy, funny) and Margaret Cabourn-Smith (cheerful, funny) are excellent, and Ward (acerbic, funny) is too. Her opening line, about putting an Egyptian mummy into an old people's home, immediately informed listeners that they weren't in 6.30pm-Radio-4-land any more. Plus, because of the joy of podcasts, each episode can carry on for as long as it wants to. Lovely.
Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, 31st July 2016Five more go on about race
Five more non-white standups on race.
Claire Sawers, The Herald, 30th July 2016Interview: Shappi Khorsandi
UK-Iranian comedian and writer Shappi Khorsandi had no problem getting into the mind of a 17-year-old for her new book Nina Is Not OK.
Janet Christie, The Scotsman, 29th July 2016I talk to: Shappi Khorsandi
She's just released her debut novel and she's about to go on tour, but before she does, Shappi Khorsandi is bringing Oh My Country! From Morris Dancing to Morrissey to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 29th July 2016Nina Is Not OK, by Shappi Khorsandi - book review
Shappi Khorsandi has previously spoken of how her own problems with addiction informed her debut novel, which is perhaps why central character Nina feels so awfully real.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th July 2016Fringe preview: The Stand
Iconic Edinburgh venue keeps its finger on the Fringe pulse with an exciting programme of established names and up-and-coming talent.
Kevin Wight, TV Bomb, 26th July 2016