Shaparak Khorsandi
Shaparak Khorsandi | |
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British politics | |
Spouse |
Christian Reilly
(m. 2005; div. 2011) |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) | Hadi Khorsandi (father) |
Notable works and roles |
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Website | shappi |
Shaparak Khorsandi (
Khorsandi has authored several books. Her memoir A Beginner's Guide to Acting English was published in 2009. Her first novel, Nina is Not OK, was published in 2016, and her
Early life and education
Shaparak Khorsandi was born on 8 June 1973 in
She originally performed professionally as Shappi Khorsandi.[9][10] Khorsandi explained in The Independent about her decision to revert to using her full name, Shaparak, professionally. Having had her full name mocked and mispronounced when she was a child, she decided to be known as "Shappi" from the age of 16, but eventually decided that this was an attempt "to bend in a direction which would make my foreignness more comfortable for other people", and to revert to using her original name.[10]
Career in comedy
Khorsandi performs stand-up comedy, and appeared at Joe Wilson's Comedy Madhouse in 1997.[11] Her Iranian heritage and reactions to it are frequently referenced in her comedy performances.[7] In 2000, she was runner-up in the Hackney Empire New Act of The Year, and William Cook of The Guardian found her "feisty self-mockery" to be "refreshing ... with something new to say and a new way of saying it".[12] That summer, she made her debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the three-person show Pablo Diablo's Cryptic Triptych, performing between ventriloquist Mark Felgate and Russell Brand.[13][14] The same year, she was nominated for 2000 the BBC New Comedy Award.[15]
A short 2004 preview in The Times read that Khorsandi's act "uses her turbulent background to confident, creative effect".[16] Her 2006 show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Asylum Speaker, drew on her experience of leaving Iran and her fear on learning of death threats to her father.[17]: 167 It was praised by Mark Monahan of The Daily Telegraph as "lively, ambitious and interesting" although he felt that the quality of the second half of the show was not as funny as the first.[18] Jasper Gerard of The Sunday Times called Khorsandi the "surprise hit" of the Fringe.[19] Theatre academics Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris later wrote that this show was the "act that brought her wide media attention".[17]: 166 Reflecting on her career to 2010, they considered that a key aspect of Khorsandi's comedy was that "her humour resonates with common experiences of racially marked prejudice and 'othering', but is rooted in the specificities of her own, lived, migratory experiences".[17]: 167
In 2007, Khorsandi travelled to Australia and performed at the
Khorsandi was a panellist on Question Time in 2006 and returned in 2010, 2015, and 2018.[28] In a column for The Independent in 2019, she recounted that she was inappropriately touched by Boris Johnson during one of the shows and had included references to this in some of her stand-up routines.[29][30][31]
Her
Topics in her 2011 show Me and My Brother in Our Pants, Holding Hands included her relationship with her brother, divorce, flashers, and her mother's low self-esteem. Tim Richards of The Age gave a positive review, writing that it was "not wet-your-pants material, but it's an absorbing hour".[38] For the Leicester Mercury reviewer, it was Khorsandi's best show to date, and "a skillfully polished skit, that nevertheless felt like it was being performed for the first time".[39]
Khorsandi wrote a 2011 episode of
In 2016, Khorsandi appeared with her son on Big Star's Little Star.[44] Also that year, along with other celebrities, she toured the UK to support Jeremy Corbyn's bid to become Prime Minister.[45][46] Her new stand-up show that year, Oh My Country! From Morris Dancing to Morrissey, which Jay Richardson of The Scotsman summarised as "a passionate love letter to the England she calls home".[47] The Times critic Dominic Maxwell commented that Khorsandi's "playfully oversharing manner couches a passion for her topic and a knack for getting plenty said in an apparently conversational aside".[48]
Khorsandi was a contestant on the seventeenth series of
Her show Mistress and Misfit combined material about Khorsandi's life with biographical details about
It was the 90s! (2021–2022) examined changes in attitudes since the 1990s, and Khorsandi's own experience of being a
Her other television appearances have included Have I Got News for You, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross,.[17]: 166 Mock the Week,[56][57] 8 Out of 10 Cats,[58] Celebrity Antiques Road Trip,[59] and Blankety Blank.[60]
Personal life
In 2005, she married fellow comedian Christian Reilly, and they had a son together before divorcing in 2011.[61][62] Her daughter was born in June 2013; the following year she told an interviewer that they were not in contact with the girl's father, "But that's fine, I'm not angry or bitter about it."[62] As of 2022[update], she was in a relationship with fellow comedian Mark Steel.[63]
Khorsandi was raised without any religion,
Books
Khorsandi's memoir, A Beginner's Guide to Acting English, was published by
Her second book and first novel, Nina is Not OK, was published in 2016.
Tours and live shows
Year | Title | Notes | Ref. |
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2000 | Pablo Diablo's Cryptic Triptych | Edinburgh Festival Fringe. With Russell Brand and Mark Felgate. | [82] |
2001 | Off The Kerb Roadshow | Edinburgh Festival Fringe. With Angie McEvoy, JJ Whitehead, and Mark Felgate. | [82] |
2003 | Shappi Khorsandi | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | [82] |
2006 | Asylum Speaker | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | [83] |
2007 | Carry On Shappi | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | [82] |
2007 | Comedy Gala 2007 | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | [82] |
2009 | The Distracted Activist | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | [82] |
2009 | Night of Comedy for Ray – Hosted by Michael McIntyre | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | [82] |
2010 | The Moon on a Stick | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | [82] |
2011 | Me and My Brother in Our Pants, Holding Hands | Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Melbourne Comedy Festival | [82][38] |
2012–13 | Dirty Looks And Hopscotch | Edinburgh Festival Fringe and tour | [82][84] |
2014–15 | Because I'm Shappi | Edinburgh Festival Fringe and tour | [82][85] |
2014 | Addison Cresswell Comedy Tribute | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | [82] |
2016–17 | Oh My Country! From Morris Dancing to Morrissey | Edinburgh Festival Fringe and tour | [86][83] |
2017 | Mistress & Misfit | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | [82] |
2018 | Skittish Warrior… Confessions of a Club Comic | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | [82] |
2021–22 | It was the 90s! | Touring | [87] |
Television and radio appearances
Publications
Year | Title | Publisher | ISBN |
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2009 | A Beginner's Guide To Acting English | Ebury Press | ISBN 978-0-09-192477-5
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2016 | Nina is Not OK | Ebury Press | ISBN 978-1-78503-136-6
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2021 | Kissing Emma | Orion (Hachette) | ISBN 978-1-5101-0699-4
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2023 | Scatter Brain | Vermilion | ISBN 978-1-7850-4419-9
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Awards, honours and nominations
Year | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2000 | BBC New Comedy Award | Nominated | [15] |
2010 | British Comedy Awards , Best Female TV Comic
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Nominated | [88] |
2010 | Honorary doctorate, University of Winchester | Awarded | [89] |
2013 | James Joyce Award | Won | [90] |
2014 | BBC's 100 women | [91] |
See also
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External links
- Official website
- Shaparak Khorsandi at IMDb
- Shappi Khorsandi at Comedy CV
- Iranian diaspora: Shappi Khorsandi at BBC News Online
- Chortle account