onsdag 14. april 2010

The lord of the rings: Two towers

I have chose to read about the two towers book. The book starts with Boromir of Minas Thirith has fallen. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli burries him and keep on looking for Frodo. They find out that Frodo and his servant Samwise has gone by boat to reach the evil land of Mordor. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli sets out on a jurney to save their two hobbit friends Merry and Pippin. The have been taken prisoners by the Orcs and are being taken to Isengard to the traitor Sauroman. When Aragorn and his company has lost all hope they meet a company of horsemen from Rohan. They can tell that they slayed the group of orcs which had their friends last night. Aragron and the others sets out to where the battle between the horsemen and the orcs were and tries to find the hobbits without mutch luck.

onsdag 17. februar 2010

Omid Djalili
I chose to write about the british stand-up comedian Omid Djaili. This is a task we got from our english teacher so i had to write a bloody blog. But if you have ever seen the omid Djalili show, i am shure you would have laughed your ass of. Because the first time I saw him on TV I was laughing so hard that in the end of the show that i was laying on the floor in some kind of laughing cramps.
The best thing about Omid Djalili is his accents, he speaks so many accents that you would need a calculator to count them. He also have lots of impressions lik the godzilla impression, and i think a impression of the popular "Man VS. Wild" wit Bear gryllis
He was actually voted as the 60th place on the "The 100 Greatest Stand-Ups" which is pretty good. Here you will find a good example of his nigerian accent which i think is his best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgUkHYPXh9s. He has actually been in a lot of films too, but only as extra this is a scetch which he is playing on this theme starting on 6.00: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_2wkc4CB4.
He is actually from Iran, which he takse great advantage of in his shows. And he also like to do the "Bellydance" in his shows, which he is known for, here is a video for that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ENQqMQumo.
This is a quotation taken from his own homepage: http://www.omidnoagenda.com/. WHich is about Omid:

"Omid Djalili is an award-winning British-Iranian actor/comedian. Not only acclaimed as one of Britain's funniest stand up comedians, he has also featured in films including ‘The Mummy’, ‘Gladiator’, ‘Spy Game’, ‘Modigliani’, 'Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow', 'Casanova', and will soon be seen in 'The Allottment' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean III'. On TV he did two seasons of 'Small Potatoes' on Channel 4. In the States he signed a talent holding deal with NBC in 2002 and co-starred with Whoopi Goldberg in her sitcom ‘Whoopi’ which ran from 2003-04. Most recently Omid has been commissioned to do his own series for BBC1, ‘The Omid Djalili Show’.

After great success at the Edinburgh Festivals of 1993 and 1994 with a one-man theatre piece, Omid became a festival favourite with a string of sell-out comedy shows. It started in 1995 with ‘Short Fat Kebab Shop Owner’s Son’, then in 1996 in ‘Arab & The Jew’. In 1997 it was ‘Omid Djalili Is Ethnic’, his least favourite year spawing the legendary lines from his manager Nigel "There's no business like no business". In 1999 he went back to Edinburgh and had another hit show, "The Iranian Ceilidh" with Kamal Mazlumi. ‘Warm to my Winning Smile’ then followed in 2000, and in 2002 ‘Behind Enemy Lines’. All three of these shows became Edinburgh’s hottest ticket. ‘Behind Enemy Lines’ received an astonishing six 5-star reviews. In 2005 Omid returned to the festival with his most successful show to date, ‘No Agenda’, with record breaking sales on the fringe totalling 16,500; this show then transferred to a total sell-out nationwide 40 date tour, including 2 shows at the London Palladium in 2006. He is one of the funniest, freshest and most original comedians in Britain today."