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A big round of applause goes to the David O’Doherty, the winner of the Edinburgh festival’s Intelligent Finance Comedy Awards 2008 (IF.com award) with his show ‘Let’s Comedy’. The best newcomer award went to the lovely lady, Sarah Millican for her show, Sarah Millican’s Not Nice. The Spirit of the Fringe award was magnanimously given to all the performers... ah bless. If you want to check out some of the previous winners then have a gander HERE

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4Laughs contributor and user Mixtnuts brings us this lovely little viral written by our favourite Comedy Police Officer Bruceboy... You’ve been waiting for years for him to pop the question. Every time he bends down to tie his shoelaces, you wait with baited breath, wishing that this time he’d either buy some bloody Velcro shoes or ask that ‘question’. Now, the time has come for the special person in your life to propose...

Comedy Police Officer Bruceboy has been investigating the comedy talent of Omid Djalili. Here's his report:

"If we dropped Omid Djalilis all over the West instead of bombs across the Middle East, the World would be a far happier place." (The Guardian)

"I'd been reviewing comedy for six months the first time I saw Mr Djalili. It was on a Montreal DVD - modestly entitled 'World's Best Stand-up' - and all I could say was, um, wow.

"'Cause God, this guy was good. More importantly, he was special. Unique. Individual… One minute he was prancing around like a court jester ('I don't care if you don't laugh - I shall cover it with belly-dancing'), the next he was slyly ironising East-West relations ('The Taliban - putting the 'fun' back into fundamentalism… Shame they forgot the 'mental' in fundamentalism'). He was alternately silly ('Moi noime is Moichael Caine! - I do impressions as well'), bizarre ('I tried that line in the mirror. Naked and one black sock. I pissed myself for half-an-hour') and clever ('What do you call an honest Arabian businessman? Asif'). But mainly, he was Omid. And like many of our finest comedians - think Alexei Sayle, Eddie Izzard, Lee Evans - he had to be seen to be believed.

"One to check out, then. And to my astonishment he was hardly an overnight success. More an over-twenty-five-years struggle.

"Pardon the pretentiousness, but Omid's first love was the theatre. Inspired by actors like Judy Dench and movies like 'La Cage aux Folles', he trained in experimental theatre in ex-Czechoslovakia and had his first play - 'The Scott Joplin Revue' - at Holland Park School in Spring '81. Equally fat 'n' funny Mel Smith saw it and told him to try comedy.

"He didn't. He preferred to try the Fringe with '89's Red Rose Club's 'Una Dia de La Vida' (a Chile benefit where he played all six characters) and then Camden's Etcetera Theatre with Edward Albee's 'Zoo Story'. The latter saw him determined to be a serious dramatic thesp - an Iranian Al Pacino? - but garnering gut-crunching giggles every time he opened his mouth. Funny old world innit.

"1991-1994 was spent touring Europe with Bratislavia's In-Theatre - mingling newbies with classics like Berkoff's 'Decadence' (directed by Edward Hall) - till he hit Edinburgh with his one-man outing 'A Strange Bit of History'... Awards aplenty followed. And Omid became a Fringe regular.

"Mind you, it was tough going. His '95 début - 'Short Fat Kebab Shop Owner's Son' - kicked off with a disastrous taster at the Assembly Rooms before becoming a surprise success. And next year's 'Arab and Jew' - with Ivor Dembina, the circuit legend who once quipped "Comedians gotta be unbelievably arrogant" - was a brave stab at the Middle-East conflict that impressed no one. Including the performers, who blamed each other for it.

"Still, TV followed in '96 as Omid defeated the fledgling 'League of Gentlemen' on Jonathan Ross' 'Big Big Talent Show'. Understandably chuffed, he made 'Omid Djalili is Ethnic' for Edinburgh - and lost both money and face. As the 'Gentlemen' casually nabbed the Perrier Award. Ah bugger.

"Back to the acting then. Mr Djalili played a warden in Universal's blockbusting 'Mummy' in '98 and the excitement inspired 'im to return to Edinburgh with 'Iranian Ceilidh', featuring multi-talented musician Kamal Mazlumi. And as Omid would pout in his mock-English croon, "It went really well." So well in fact that he alternated film ('Spy Game' and Oscar-baiting 'Gladiator') with 'Time Out'-winning stand-up - arranging much-touted appearances at The Bloomsbury for September 2001.

"It's a little-known fact, but there was some kind of terrorist attack on September 11 that year. And Omid found half his fans fleeing Bloombury in paranoia, and a whole new set of fans queuing up to hear his response. Hence 'Behind Enemy Lines', a searing yet endearing commentary on what the hell was going on. And aforementioned Montreal explosion. Oh, and a storming Edinburgh stint that left him the first ethnic minority comic to get a Perrier nomination. Plus Channel Four's 'Bloody Foreigners', a documentary on asylum-seekers that easily nabbed a One World Media Award.

"In October 2002 Omid signed up to NBC for his own show. It never happened - thanks to the war in Iraq in February - but he managed twenty-two episodes of 'Whoopi' alongside Ms Goldberg, plus another acting bout (as the first guy to portray a young Picasso - opposite Andy Garcia in 'Modigliani') and a deal with HBO (the first UK-based comic to do so since Eddie Izzard).

"And so we come to 'No Agenda'. It's Omid's first DVD - about time too - and it is, technically speaking, a belter. 'Genius' ('Metro'), 'sensational' ('The List'), 'hilarious' ('The Independent')… Proof that Montreal wasn't a fluke. Proof that Omid is the only Iranian comedian in the world ('Don't laugh, that's three more than Germany'). Proof that he deserved to sell 16,500 tickets and garner his own BBC show (broadcast November 2007)...

"Stand-up doyen Logan Murray argued that comedy's all about play. And Omid's winning."