Omid Djalili on women's rights issues - not funny at all

Really interesting record of university experiences

www.gcacademianetwork.org/#

He has form. This is about an uninformed ‘funny’ tweet in 2019, but the advice about apologising when you clearly haven’t understood an issue still applies.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/omid-djalilis-joke-welsh-language-16537518.amp

“When you have so many people taking that view, that is probably a good barometer to help you understand that your joke was probably not your best. Maybe the decent thing to do would be to hold your hands up to that, explain yourself and apologise.

Or perhaps Mr Djalili should read a little Welsh history in order to better understand what our language means to us.”

Putting the twit in twitter. Bless him.

I saw that too with Otto English (Andrew Scott). Francis Wheen sent him some links to articles on women who have been deplatformed, for 'crimes' including supporting LGBA. His reply was much more graceful that OD's.

Gary Lineker thanked people for giving him examples, rather than throwing a massive mantrum.

Yes it was Otto English, thanks.

Otto English, MissBarbary?

I'm assuming American twitter is asleep right now, but I ponder how well OD's closing tweet could go down with the ones who aren't too preoccupied with the awfulness of the Texan situation.

7. No, I’m not painting myself as a hero. But now feel I really know how Mike Pence felt on Capitol Hill Jan 6th when running for the cellar.

- End Thread.

(estimated response: 0 RTs, 3 likes).

Now waiting for pile-on from flies.
t.co/3KcYRuDan6

Let it happen.

OD don't stop 😂

There's a definite risk this would be reported/perceived as "Omid Djalili sues woman for not finding him funny and telling him so".

I think there are a couple of thousand people now who might have to be private about their GC sympathies in RL, but who would take great joy in publicly sharing any article on FB that had that sentiment as the headline.

"He self-identifies as a comedian but he was certainly not assigned funny at birth."
Lol
If only he had the wit, intelligence and humour that some of the brilliant women here were blessed with.

I think somebody who earns a living as a comedian might want to think twice about suggesting that sarcasm is libellous.

I don't think that would limit his repatoir at all. He self-identifies as a comedian but he was certainly not assigned funny at birth.

a legal case would be a PR nightmare for Djalili

There's a definite risk this would be reported/perceived as "Omid Djalili sues woman for not finding him funny and telling him so".

One thing the JM vs KH fiasco has in common with OD. When the slur was pointed out, if both KH and OD had simply said "oh, I seem to have made a mistake, I'm sorry", then both matters would have immediately blown over and been forgotten in a day or two. Meanwhile, I wonder if OD is going to push this into day 4.

I think somebody who earns a living as a comedian might want to think twice about suggesting that sarcasm is libellous.

Firstly, IANAL, but I have legal textbooks, and it looks like a very poor case.

Katie Hopkins and Jack Monroe was totally different. KH misidentified a picture of someone being a prat on a war memorial as Jack and tweeted that out.

That is nothing like someone being sarky about the implications of your tweet. Any reasonable person on the clapham omnibus could tell quite clearly from the quote tweet of Omid's tweet at the top of Dr EM's thread, what was going on.

Secondly, a legal case would be a PR nightmare for Djalili. No-one outside twitter and MN knows about this at the moment. That is not something he should work to change.

The arrogance of the man is quite something.
Still not spoken to a real lawyer.
Embarrassing.

He must be on the same stuff as Trump Junior this week.

Good news! Some new people who missed all the earlier tweets have turned up for it. We've got lots of 'yeah, Omid you da man'. But also some NEW people who are horrified that he was throwing the word Nazi around like confetti.

I guess he has no management, pr or media advisers or anyone to tell him to just stop digging. Has he reached Australia yet?

He also conveniently forgot to mention the women he called Adolf and Eva Braun in his little summary.

In case anyone is wondering, he's gone with 'It was a joke, I've been misrepresented, I've been called mean things in my life, I did try to listen to some of my mates, but in the end, I'm too fucking arrogant to admit I was wrong, so I wasn't, it was all those bitches who I'm now going to liken to annoying flies because I have belatedly realized calling them Adolf fell pretty bloody flat. Now let's talk about the footy, 'cos I showed those women what for, eh lads?'

Still getting his arse handed to him though.

And Omid has posted. AGAIN.

twitter.com/omid9/status/1362852135210213382?s=19

I just wish I could see David Baddiel and Ricky Gervais discussing it.

Not publicly, but I imagine some observers wander off and read around the topic quietly to themselves, so it still serves a purpose.