Shaparak Khorsandi Explained

Shaparak Khorsandi
Native Name:شاپرک خرسندی
Native Name Lang:fa
Birth Date:1973 6, df=y
Birth Place:Tehran, Pahlavi Iran
Medium:Stand-up, television
Nationality:British
Subjects:Everyday life, Iranian culture, British politics
Children:2
Notable Work:
Parents:Hadi Khorsandi (father)

Shaparak Khorsandi (Persian: شاپرک خرسندی, pronounced as /fa/;[1] born 8 June 1973), who previously performed as Shappi Khorsandi, is an Iranian-born British comedian[2] and author. She is the daughter of the Iranian political satirist and poet Hadi Khorsandi. Her family left Iran for the United Kingdom following the 1979 revolution, and her Iranian heritage and reactions to it are frequently referenced in her stand-up comedy performances. Khorsandi rose to national prominence after her 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Asylum Speaker and her appearance at the Secret Policeman's Ball two years later. She has featured on numerous British television and radio programmes, including the BBC Radio 4 programme Shappi Talk (2009 and 2010), and I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2017.

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 young adult fiction novel Kissing Emma, was published in 2021. The autobiographical Scatter Brain followed in 2023.

Early life and education

Shaparak Khorsandi was born on 8 June 1973 in Tehran.[3] [4] Her parents were Fatemah, and the satirist and poet Hadi Khorsandi.[5] The family fled from Iran to London after the Islamic Revolution following a joke that her father composed which was seen as critical of the revolutionary regime.[6] Khorsandi graduated from King Alfred's College, now the University of Winchester, in 1995, with a Drama, Theatre, and Television degree. After graduating, she worked in various roles, including at a community theatre, in a sandwich shop, as a telephone fundraiser, and as a nude life model, whilst starting her career as a stand-up comedian. In 2010, the university awarded her an honorary doctorate.[3] [7] [8]

She originally performed professionally as Shappi Khorsandi.[9] 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. 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.

A short 2004 preview in The Times read that Khorsandi's act "uses her turbulent background to confident, creative effect".[15] 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. 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.[16] Jasper Gerard of The Sunday Times called Khorsandi the "surprise hit" of the Fringe.[17] Theatre academics Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris later wrote that this show was the "act that brought her wide media attention".[18] 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".[18]

In 2007, Khorsandi travelled to Australia and performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.[19] Later, she was nominated for the best breakthrough act at the 2007 Chortle Awards.[20] Khorsandi was one of the acts at The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008 show for Amnesty International;[21] writing in 2021, she reflected that this appearance "led to regular TV bookings, including Live at the Apollo, which meant I could tour. Being a touring comic meant that I made much more money than when I was on the circuit."[22] In December 2008, she appeared on the BBC stand-up television show Live at the Apollo alongside Russell Kane and Al Murray.[23] She performed her show, The Distracted Activist, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 6 to 31 August 2009.[24] The theme of the show was her involvement in campaigns, while being "distracted" by being a single mother.[25] [18] Aston and Harris noted that Khorsandi made a point of emphasising that she was Iranian and a woman, but by highlighting her skin tone and dark hair, "simultaneously defamiliarises the feminine and makes the foreign familiar: ethnicity and gender intersect to deterritorialise the category 'Woman' as a site of privileged white femininity".[18] They remark that while her act seeks to expose the concept of the "exotic foreigner" as the construct of "a white imagination", her self-description as "exotic foreigner" as "foreign but not in a way that we hate" as potentially reinforcing "stranger fetishism".[18] Brian Logan's review in The Guardian found the show lacking in direction, and described it as "conventional comment on geopolitics amid much directionless banter and biographical gossip".[25] Reviewing a performance in Brighton, Sarah Lewis-Hammond wrote in The Argus that she found the show relatable, and that the audience clearly enjoyed it.[26]

Khorsandi was a panellist on Question Time in 2006 and returned in 2010, 2015, and 2018.[27] 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.[28] [29] [30]

Her BBC Radio 4 programme Shappi Talk (2009) had four themed episodes, each with comedy routines relating to her early life in the UK; the themes were racism, unconventional parents, religion, and growing up.[31] [32] Guests on the programme included Meera Syal.[32] In The Times, Chris Campling praised Khorsandi as "very funny" but described the show as addressing issues in a way that was "no mere retread of her general stand-up routine".[33] Trevor Lewis of The Sunday Times called it "A comedy treat."[32] A second series, with themes of divorce, addiction, history, and politics, aired in 2010.[34] She performed "Mickey" on the second episode of Let's Dance for Sport Relief 2010,[35] and later was a guest alongside Noddy Holder on Genius, hosted by Dave Gorman. Khorsandi and Holder assessed concepts suggested by the audience, such as emery boards on escalators to file fingernails whilst moving between floors.[36]

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".[37] 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".[38]

Khorsandi wrote a 2011 episode of Little Crackers, a series of short autobiographical programmes shown on Sky1, about meeting Todd Carty from Grange Hill.[39] Lucy Mangan of The Guardian acclaimed it as "a sweet, sharp vision of her grandparents in terrifying few words and minutes. Genius."[40] Her 2012 stand-up show Dirty Looks and Hopscotch was based around an account of a short-term relationship with a famous, un-named, musician.[41] According to James Kettle in The Guardian, Khorsandi presented "perhaps too much information about her sex life, her hang-ups and her general mental health", although he added that the performance had the "merciful addition of an arsenal of great jokes".[41] The show commended by Victoria Lee of The Daily Telegraph for Khorsandi being "more open than previously" in her routine, which contained "old-fashioned filth".[42] In 2016, Khorsandi appeared with her son on Big Star's Little Star.[43] Also that year, along with other celebrities, she toured the UK to support Jeremy Corbyn's bid to become Prime Minister.[44] [45] 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".[46] 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".[47]

Khorsandi was a contestant on the seventeenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in November 2017 and, following a public vote, was the first contestant to be eliminated.[48] [49] She remarked that she felt isolated during the show, and had not enjoyed it,[50] and her experience there had helped her realise that she was content with her usual life.

Her show Mistress and Misfit combined material about Khorsandi's life with biographical details about Emma Hamilton. In The Guardian in 2018, Logan wrote that he saw no clear reason for the mixture, and wrote that some of the jokes were reused from Khorsandi's earlier shows.[51] Skittish Warrior...Confessions of a Club Comic saw Khorsandi reflecting on twenty years as a stand-up comedian, including her own undermining of herself in the early years.[52]

It was the 90s! (2021–2022) examined changes in attitudes since the 1990s, and Khorsandi's own experience of being a ladette.[53] Lloyd Evans, in the Australian edition of The Spectator criticised Khorsandi in 2021, writing that, "Her material is not especially strong and her greatest asset is a combative stage presence which, as she admits, springs from a deep need to show off in front of strangers."[54]

Her other television appearances have included Have I Got News for You, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross,.[18] Mock the Week,[55] [56] 8 Out of 10 Cats,[57] Celebrity Antiques Road Trip,[58] and Blankety Blank.[59]

Personal life

In 2005, she married fellow comedian Christian Reilly, and they had a son together before divorcing in 2011.[60] [61] 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.", she was in a relationship with fellow comedian Mark Steel.

Khorsandi was raised without any religion,[62] and identifies as an atheist.[63] She later became a patron of Humanists UK, which appointed her as its President for a three-year term from January 2016, succeeding Jim Al-Khalili.[64] She became a vice-president of the group in 2019,[65] a role she retained .[66] In 2017, she came out as bisexual,[67] and wrote that she had gone on marches in support of gay rights since she was 17: "Despite all those years of marching and getting drunk at Pride, officially coming 'out' as bisexual seemed like too much of a fuss."[68] Khorsandi was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder aged 47, and discussed this in a 2023 autobiography.[69]

Books

Khorsandi's memoir, A Beginner's Guide to Acting English, was published by Ebury Press in 2009. The book describes how she experienced England as a young girl.[70] [71] The narrative begins with her attending nursery school, The Kings' International Nursery School, with her brother, Peyvand. Throughout the book, she explains how the Persian language differs from English: "They called me 'poppet'. Iranians said 'jaan' or 'azizam.[72] Other themes include her experiences with English food and customs. Historian Sharif Gemme felt that "While one can hear her distinctive, resonant voice reaching the punchlines at the end of the paragraphs, the final result is not impressive: neither particularly amusing nor genuinely observant."[73]

Her second book and first novel, Nina is Not OK, was published in 2016.[74] [75] The titular character is a teenager living with alcohol abuse. It was nominated for the Jhalak Prize, a literary award for Black, Asian, and minority ethnic writers. However, Khorsandi asked for it to be removed from consideration, telling an interviewer, "For once in my career I'd done something not about identity ... and I get a sticker for being brown." Khorsandi's young adult fiction novel Kissing Emma, published in 2021, was inspired by the life of Emma Hamilton.[76] [77] Her autobiographical Scatter Brain (2023) is subtitled How I finally got off the ADHD rollercoaster and became the owner of a very tidy sock drawer.[78] [79]

Tours and live shows

Year! scope="col"
TitleNotes
2000scope=row Pablo Diablo's Cryptic TriptychEdinburgh Festival Fringe. With Russell Brand and Mark Felgate.[80]
2001scope=row Off The Kerb RoadshowEdinburgh Festival Fringe. With Angie McEvoy, JJ Whitehead, and Mark Felgate.
2003scope=row Shappi KhorsandiEdinburgh Festival Fringe
2006scope=row Asylum SpeakerEdinburgh Festival Fringe[81]
2007scope=row Carry On ShappiEdinburgh Festival Fringe
2007scope=row Comedy Gala 2007Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2009scope=row The Distracted ActivistEdinburgh Festival Fringe
2009scope=row Night of Comedy for Ray – Hosted by Michael McIntyreEdinburgh Festival Fringe
2010scope=row The Moon on a StickEdinburgh Festival Fringe
2011scope=row Me and My Brother in Our Pants, Holding HandsEdinburgh Festival Fringe, Melbourne Comedy Festival
2012–13scope=row Dirty Looks And HopscotchEdinburgh Festival Fringe and tour[82]
2014Addison Cresswell Comedy TributeEdinburgh Festival Fringe
2014–15scope=row Because I'm ShappiEdinburgh Festival Fringe and tour[83]
2016–17scope=row Oh My Country! From Morris Dancing to MorrisseyEdinburgh Festival Fringe and tour[84]
2017scope=row Mistress & MisfitEdinburgh Festival Fringe
2018scope=row Skittish Warrior… Confessions of a Club ComicEdinburgh Festival Fringe
2021–22scope=row It was the 90s!Touring[85]

Television and radio appearances

See main article: Shaparak Khorsandi on television and radio.

Publications

Year!scope=row
Titlescope=rowPublisherscope=rowISBN
2009scope=rowA Beginner's Guide To Acting EnglishEbury Press
2016scope=rowNina is Not OKEbury Press
2021scope=rowKissing EmmaOrion (Hachette)
2023scope=rowScatter BrainVermilion

Awards, honours and nominations

YearAwardResult
2000BBC New Comedy Award[86]
2010British Comedy Awards, Best Female TV Comic[87]
Honorary doctorate, University of WinchesterAwarded[88]
2013James Joyce Award[89]
2014BBC's 100 women[90]

See also

External links

Notes and References

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  2. Oh My Country! From Morris Dancing to Morrissey
  3. Book: Khorsandi, Shappi . A Beginner's Guide to Acting English. 2009. Ebury Press. 978-0-09-192477-5 . Un-numbered page facing the inside front cover . y.
  4. News: Birthdays today . The Times . London . 8 June 2020 . 27.
  5. News: Helen . Brown . I was warned not to look good on stage . The Daily Telegraph . 11 September 2021 . 9, 11.
  6. Web site: Allan. Vicky. Getting personal with Shappi Khorsandi – mistress, misfit, a single mother ... and very funny woman. 4 February 2018. 13 November 2021. The Herald. Glasgow. en. 13 November 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211113123241/https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/15918585.getting-personal-shappi-khorsandi---mistress-single-mum-misfit-funny-woman/. live.
  7. Web site: Comedian Shappi Khorsandi to be honoured by the University of Winchester. The University of Winchester. 5 October 2010. 19 August 2012. 22 February 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140222050444/http://www.winchester.ac.uk/newsandevents/Pages/ComedianShappiKhorsanditobehonouredbytheUniversityofWinchester.aspx. live.
  8. News: Thompson . Jennifer . Comedian Shappi Khorsandi on why she can't return to Iran . Financial Times . 21 July 2017 . 2 September 2021 . 2 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210902120813/https://www.ft.com/content/956d27c6-6ad9-11e7-bfeb-33fe0c5b7eaa . live .
  9. News: Cain . Sian . Shappi Khorsandi withdraws book from Jhalak prize longlist . The Guardian . London . 6 January 2017 . 23 December 2020 . 12 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201112001636/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/06/shappi-khorsandi-withdraws-book-from-jhalak-prize-longlist . live.
  10. Web site: 11 June 2021. Why I have decided to change my name from 'Shappi' back to 'Shaparak'. 31 August 2021. The Independent. 31 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210831170726/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/shappi-khorsandi-name-change-identity-b1864327.html. live.
  11. News: Don't miss . Evening Standard . 8 February 2008 . A45 . 12 June 2023 . 30 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230630164055/https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-dont-miss-khorsandi/125671755/ . live.
  12. News: Cook . William . Kosher Club . The Guardian . 6 May 2000 . G38 . 12 June 2023 . 30 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230630164056/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-kosher-club/125671870/ . live.
  13. News: Purdy . Jane-Ann . Pablo Diabolo . The Scotsman . 23 August 2000 . 7.
  14. News: Going out, staying in . The Scotsman . 5 September 2002 . 12.
  15. News: Critic'spick . The Times . 10 April 2004 . 49[S6].
  16. News: Mark . Monahan . Comedy roundup . The Daily Telegraph . 14 August 2006 . 23 . 26 July 2023 . 30 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230630174153/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-comedy-roundup/125677147/ . live .
  17. News: Gerard . Jasper . Starring in a comedy of terrors . The Sunday Times. 20 August 2006 . NR5.
  18. Book: Elaine . Aston . Geraldine . Harris . Entertaining Others: Shappi Khorsandi and Andi Osho . A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance . 158–182 . 2012 . Palgrave Macmillan . 978-0-230-28103-5 . 10.1057/9781137300140.
  19. Web site: I am an Iranian stand-up comedian: Shappi Khorsandi . 8 April 2007 . Australian Broadcasting Corporation . 30 June 2023 . 30 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230630002031/https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/i-am-an-iranian-stand-up-comedian-shappi-khorsandi/3401530 . live .
  20. Web site: And the Chortle nominees are.. . Chortle . 5 February 2007 . 4 July 2023 . 28 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230428030335/https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2007/02/05/4985 . live .
  21. News: Leo . Benedictus . The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008 . The Guardian . 6 October 2008 . 5 August 2023 . 25 October 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211025150921/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/oct/06/comedy.secret.policeman.ball . live .
  22. News: Angela . Wintler . Shaparak Khorsandi: 'We bought our veg at Harrods then lost everything in the Iranian revolution' . 21 November 2021 . 4 July 2023 . 8 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220808125627/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/fame-fortune/shaparak-khorsandi-bought-veg-harrods-lost-everything-iranian/ . live .
  23. Web site: BBC listing . BBC . 26 January 2011 . 21 January 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110121165241/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fyjm0 . live .
  24. Web site: Shappi Khorsandi: The Distracted Activist | Edinburgh Festival Guide . Edinburghfestival.list.co.uk . 21 August 2009 . 26 January 2011 . 22 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201222154133/https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/10000248-shappi-khorsandi-the-distracted-activist/ . live .
  25. News: Logan . Brian . Shappi Khorsandi . The Guardian . 18 August 2009 . 2 July 2023 . 5 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230405210112/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/aug/18/shappi-khorsandi-edinburgh-review . live .
  26. News: Sarah . Lewis-Hammond . Shappi Khorsandi: The Distracted Activist, Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, Oct 20 . The Argus . 21 October 2009 . 2 July 2023 . 4 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230704171704/https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4694766.shappi-khorsandi-the-distracted-activist-pavilion-theatre-brighton-oct-20/ . live.
    • Web site: Question Time . 16 November 2006 . BBC . 1 June 2023 . 1 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230601103941/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b007cj45 . live.
    • Web site: Question Time . 14 January 2010 . BBC . 1 June 2023 . 1 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230601111441/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b00q0g8l . live.
    • Web site: Question Time . 2 July 2015 . BBC . 1 June 2023 . 1 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230601111439/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b061574v . live.
    • Web site: Question Time . November 2018 . BBC . 1 June 2023 . 1 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230601111437/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b0bqrbfj . live.
  28. News: Khorsandi . Shaprak . I've seen Boris Johnson's 'touchy feely' nature up close. And it's why I believe Charlotte Edwardes . 1 October 2019 . 30 June 2023 . 15 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220715222719/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris-johnson-charlotte-edwardes-shappi-khorsandi-groping-sexual-harassment-a9128346.html . live.
  29. News: Eleni . Courea . Cummings wife denies being 'second woman groped by PM' . 1 October 2019 . The Times . 9.
  30. News: Rosemary . McLeod . A talent for verse and worse . 4 October 2019 . The Press . Christchurch, New Zealand . 18.
  31. Web site: Radio 4 Programmes – Shappi Talk: Series 1 . BBC . 19 October 2010 . 26 January 2011 . 22 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201222154139/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lh4z0 . live .
  32. News: Pick of the day . 5 July 2009 . The Sunday Times. Trevor . Lewis . 71.
  33. News: Chris. Campling . Radio Choice . 9 July 2009 . The Times . 17.
  34. News: Radio choice . 22 December 2010 . i: The Paper For Today . 24.
  35. Web site: Let's Dance for Sport Relief . BBC . 26 February 2010 . 2 September 2021 . 2 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210902002833/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p006ncv2 . live .
  36. Web site: Genius With Dave Gorman – Episode 2.6. Noddy Holder and Shappi Khorsandi – British Comedy Guide . Comedy.co.uk . 26 January 2011 . 22 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201222154135/https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/genius/episodes/2/6/ . live .
  37. News: Richards . Tim . Shappi Khorsandi – Me and My Brother in Our Pants, Holding Hands: Comedy festival . The Age . Melbourne, Australia . 2 April 2012 . 13.
  38. News: Skilfully polished set in a warts 'n' all memoir . Leicester Mercury . 16 February 2012 . 8.
  39. News: Alex . Hardy. Mike . Mulvihill. Neil . Fisher. Debra . Craine . 12 treats of Christmas television . The Times . 17 December 2011 . 20–21.
  40. News: Mangan . Lucy . Lucy Mangan . Cable girl: Little Crackers . The Guardian . 26 December 2011 . 30 June 2023 . 1 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151001131025/http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/dec/26/cable-girl-little-crackers . live .
  41. News: James . Kettle . This week's new live comedy . The Guardian . 17 November 2012 . 30 June 2023 . 30 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230630164055/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/nov/17/this-weeks-new-live-comedy . live .
  42. News: Lee . Veronica . 'I've never told a soul about this, but... . The Daily Telegraph . 15 December 2012 . R15.
  43. Web site: Comedian Shappi Khorsandi live in Chatham . 13 September 2016 . Kent Online . 1 July 2023 . 30 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230630234916/https://www.kentonline.co.uk/whats-on/news/living-shappi-ever-after-102400/ . live .
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  45. News: Wilkinson. Michael. Celebrities to tour Britain in 'Jeremy Corbyn For Prime Minister' musical show. The Daily Telegraph. 1 February 2016. 15 July 2017. 9 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160609221909/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12134051/Celebrities-to-tour-Britain-in-Jeremy-Corbyn-For-Prime-Minister-musical-show.html. live.
  46. News: Jay . Richardson . Comedy review: Shappi Khorsandi: Oh My Country! From Morris Dancing to Morrissey . The Scotsman . 26 August 2016 . 1 July 2023 . 1 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230701110317/https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/comedy-review-shappi-khorsandi-oh-my-country-from-morris-dancing-to-morrissey-1468583 . live .
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  48. News: Meet your 2017 Celebrity Campmates!. 24 November 2017. 22 December 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201222154111/https://www.itv.com/imacelebrity/articles/meet-your-2017-celebrity-campmates. live.
  49. Web site: Rachel . McGrath . 'I'm A Celebrity' Fans Devastated As Shappi Khorsandi Leaves The Jungle First . HuffPost . 2 December 2017 . 4 July 2023 . 18 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180318114504/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/shappi-khorsandi-im-a-celebrity-eviction_uk_5a2265a3e4b03350e0b6f1f8 . live .
  50. News: Shappi Khorsandi says her I'm A Celebrity stint was 'all a bit sad' . 21 July 2020.
  51. News: Logan . Brian . Shappi Khorsandi review – convivial and caustic set from I'm a Celebrity star . The Guardian . 19 May 2018 . 1 July 2023 . 30 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230630234916/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/may/19/shappi-khorsandi-review-mistress-and-misfit . live .
  52. News: James . Rampton . Stand-up comedian Shappi Khorsandi's latest show looks back on her career and is an affectionate tribute to comedy clubs . Yorkshire Post . 15 March 2019 . 6 August 2023 .
  53. News: 'We weren't allowed feminism – we had the Spice Girls': the two comics unpicking ladette culture . Rachael . Healy . The Guardian . 6 January 2022 . 4 July 2023 . 30 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230330161648/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/jan/06/we-werent-allowed-feminism-we-had-the-spice-girls-the-two-comics-unpicking-ladette-culture . live .
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  58. News: Lock . Rose . Shappi Korsandi and Konnie Huq hit Sussex in Celebrity Antiques Roadtrip . The Argus . 22 January 2020 . 30 June 2023 . 23 January 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200123164050/https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18175939.shappi-korsandi-konnie-huq-hit-sussex-celebrity-antiques-roadtrip/ . live.
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  60. Web site: 4 July 2002 . Shaparak Khorsandi quits touring to spend more time with her family . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220816100311/https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2022/07/04/51087/shaparak_khorsandi_quits_touring_to_spend_more_time_with_her_family . 16 August 2022 . 5 August 2023 . Chortle.
  61. Web site: Laws . Roz . 2 May 2014 . Comedian Shappi Khorsandi heads to the West Midlands for a run of shows . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201222154136/https://www.business-live.co.uk/retail-consumer/comedian-shappi-khorsandi-heads-west-7048292 . 22 December 2020 . 30 May 2015 . Birmingham Post.
  62. Web site: Khorsandi . Shappi . January–February 2007 . Diary: Comic timing . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201222154135/https://newhumanist.org.uk/1514 . 22 December 2020 . 25 March 2010 . New Humanist:Articles, Volume 122 Issue 1 . The Rationalist Association.
  63. Web site: Higgins . Charlotte . 10 August 2011 . Shappi Khorsandi: the last laugh . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201222154133/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/aug/10/shappi-khorsandi-last-laugh . 22 December 2020 . 30 May 2015 . The Guardian.
  64. Web site: Shappi Khorsandi named new President of the British Humanist Association . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201222154105/https://humanism.org.uk/2015/12/14/shappi-khorsandi-named-new-president-of-the-british-humanist-association/ . 22 December 2020 . 14 December 2015 . Humanists UK.
  65. Web site: 11 November 2018 . Acclaimed scientist and broadcaster Alice Roberts appointed President of Humanists UK . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201222154109/https://humanism.org.uk/2018/11/11/acclaimed-scientist-and-broadcaster-alice-roberts-appointed-president-of-humanists-uk/ . 22 December 2020 . 8 January 2019 . Humanists UK.
  66. Web site: Our patrons . 6 August 2023 . Humanists UK.
  67. Web site: 18 August 2017 . Shappi Khorsandi: I'm bisexual. . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201222154109/https://www.chortle.co.uk/punching-ups/2017/08/18/37573/shappi_khorsandi:_im_bisexual . 22 December 2020 . 6 September 2017 . Chortle.
  68. News: Khorsandi . Shaparak . 22 December 2017 . I never properly came out as bisexual – I spent too much time trying to work out how to flirt with women . 6 August 2023 . The Independent.
  69. News: McGurk . Helen . 19 July 2023 . Shaparak Khorsandi: A late ADHD diagnosis changed my life . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230720131624/https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/people/shaparak-khorsandi-a-late-adhd-diagnosis-changed-my-life-4224845 . 20 July 2023 . 5 August 2023 . Belfast News Letter.
  70. Book: Khorsandi, Shappi . A Beginner's Guide to Acting English. 2009. Ebury Press. 978-0-09-192477-5 . Copyright page . y.
  71. Web site: Akbar . Arif . A Beginner's Guide to Acting English, By Shappi Khorsandi . registration. 3 July 2009. The Independent. 10 December 2019. 22 December 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201222154109/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/a-beginner-s-guide-to-acting-english-by-shappi-khorsandi-1728871.html. live.
  72. Book: Khorsandi, Shappi . A Beginner's Guide to Acting English . Ebury Press . 2009 . 4 . 978-0-09-192477-5.
  73. Book: Gemie, Sharif . Women's Writing and Muslim Societies: The Search for Dialogue, 1920–Present . University of Wales Press . 2012 . 978-0-7083-2539-1 . 13.
  74. Book: Khorsandi, Shappi . Nina is Not OK. 2016. Ebury Press. 978-1-78-503136-6 . Copyright page . y.
  75. Web site: Khorsandi's debut novel to Ebury . . 24 November 2017 . 22 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201222154131/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/khorsandis-debut-novel-ebury-307960 . live .
  76. Web site: Shappi Khorsandi writes her second young adult novel . Chortle . 29 March 2021 . 5 August 2023 . 3 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210403135328/https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2021/03/29/48111/shappi_khorsandi_writes_her_second_young_adult_novel . live .
  77. News: Claire . Hennessy . Reimagining the world . 27 November 2021 . Irish Times. 17.
  78. News: Helen . McGurk . Shaparak Khorsandi: A late ADHD diagnosis changed my life . Belfast News Letter . 19 July 2023 . 5 August 2023 . 20 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230720131624/https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/people/shaparak-khorsandi-a-late-adhd-diagnosis-changed-my-life-4224845 . live.
  79. Book: Scatter Brain . Penguin . 13 July 2023 . 5 August 2023.
  80. Web site: Shappi Khorsandi . chortle.co.uk . 22 December 2020 . 13 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201213135202/https://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/s/412/shappi_khorsandi . live .
  81. News: Greenstreet . Rosanna . 18 February 2017 . Shappi Khorsandi: 'My worst job? Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed' . The Guardian . live . 22 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200810033508/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/feb/18/shappi-khorsandi-q-and-a-interview . 10 August 2020.
  82. News: Owens . David . Shappi Khorsandi show uncovers truth about love on the rocks and roll . walesonline.co.uk . 19 March 2013 . 23 December 2020 . 14 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210414061556/https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/shappi-khorsandi-show-uncovers-truth-2494511 . live .
  83. News: Kettle . James . This week's new live comedy . The Guardian . 8 May 2015 . 23 December 2020 . 3 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190203152747/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/may/08/this-weeks-new-live-comedy . live .
  84. News: Joseph . Emma . Comedian Shappi Khorsandi on why she's reclaiming patriotism . Bournemouth Echo . 25 March 2017 . 22 December 2020 . 23 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201223011340/https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15170491.comedian-shappi-khorsandi-on-why-shes-reclaiming-patriotism/ . live .
  85. News: Pape . Leon . Shaparak Khorsandi: 'Love your audience without caring who they vote for . The Guardian . 31 May 2022 . 2 August 2022 . 17 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220617053855/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/may/31/shaparak-khorsandi-love-your-audience-without-caring-who-they-vote-for . live .
  86. Web site: BBC New Comedy Award . chortle.co.uk . 2 September 2012 . 24 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210724125121/https://www.chortle.co.uk/features_static/awards/bbcnew.php . live .
  87. Web site: Winners 2010 . britishcomedyawards.com . 23 December 2020 . 1 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201201184829/https://britishcomedyawards.com/past-winners/2010.aspx . live .
  88. News: Preview: Shappi Khorsandi . 21 October 2019 . 23 December 2020 . 23 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201223011343/https://www.winchestertoday.co.uk/2019/10/preview-shappi-khorsandi/ . live .
  89. News: Kearns . Edward . Interview: Shappi Khorsandi . universityobserver.ie . 5 February 2013 . 23 December 2012 . 26 August 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160826064826/http://www.universityobserver.ie/otwo/interview-shappi-khorsandi/ . live .
  90. News: 26 October 2014 . Who are the 100 Women 2014? . en-GB . BBC News . 17 December 2022 . 28 May 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180528130645/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-29758792 . live .

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