Culture: Why Cannes Laughter Is Just One String On Djalali's Bow ; Iranian Comedian Omid Djalali Plays Picasso in a Film Just Unveiled in Cannes, but He Tells Terry Grimley Why He Just Can't Move On From the War On Terror

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Omid Djalili will be launching a new tour of his one-man show Behind Enemy Lines at the beginning of June, and you sense he won't be short of material.

When I spoke to him last week he'd just heard an American source on the radio describing the outrage sparked by images of mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners as 'an over-reaction'.

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Culture: Why Cannes Laughter Is Just One String On Djalali's Bow ; Iranian Comedian Omid Djalali Plays Picasso in a Film Just Unveiled in Cannes, but He Tells Terry Grimley Why He Just Can't Move On From the War On Terror

'It was supposed to be news, but it was a joke,' he said. 'The whole thing about Americans is that to them everything is so relaxed. It's just ridiculous: there's stuff happenng all the time, but I'm making mental...

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