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In iran, the bahai, most of their rights are taken away, they cant go to university, they cant even work in some cases. but the basic tenant of the bahai faith is what we call the twofold moral purpose, that we are here on this planet, we are spiritual beings, to try and become better but at the same time make society better. we are quite activist, in a sense, we get involved in society, we try and raise the level of discussion so, for me, being a bahai absolutely drives what i do because it is ...

Even a nice idea. so, all the stuff about identity politics is interesting because of course we can be ajew, or you can be lgbtq or you can be whoever you are, as long as we understand we are all fundamentally one. if we understand that, then the comedy will be easier to do. you are currently making comedy in farsi. how is your farsi? not very good. well, it better improve, because you want to win a big audience in iran on bbc persian, you are doing a comedy chat show. and i am just wondering wh...

Of the holocaust. could you tell thatjoke in the same way, and for it to work in the same context and with the same tone, if you werent jewish? i personally think i would have no problem in hearing that joke from a non—jew. i think it has more emotional resonance from ajew, and i myself, you may know this about me, my mum is a holocaust, well, not exactly a survivor. she was a refugee from nazism. my grandfather was actually in dachau. so, i think it has more resonance for me, and i tell it wi...

Via the example of the holocaust. could you tell thatjoke in the same way, and for it to work in the same context and with the same tone, if you werent jewish? i personally think i would have no problem in hearing thatjoke from a non—jew. i think it has more emotional resonance from ajew, and i myself, you may not know this about me, my mum is a holocaust, well, not exactly a survivor. she was a refugee from nazism. my grandfather was actually in dachau. so, i think it has more resonance for m...

You know, im an atheist, so i dont believe in god, but if i did believe in god, i might measure some of his occasional absences from the moral universe via the example of the holocaust. could you tell thatjoke in the same way, and for it to work in the same context and with the same tone, if you werent jewish? i personally think i would have no problem in hearing thatjoke from a non—jew. i think it has more emotional resonance from ajew, and i myself, you may know this about me, my mum is a ho...

This joke, by a jewish literary academic called devorah baum. id never heard the joke before. it concerns a holocaust survivor who after the war dies and goes to heaven. and when he gets to heaven, god asks the survivor to tell him a holocaustjoke. so, the survivor does, and god says, "thats not funny." and the survivor says, "well, i guess you had to be there." what i love about thatjoke and its profundity is it says something which i personally, you know, im an atheist... i dont believe in god...