Comedy icon Omid Djalili has shared a bizarre tale about a man who tragically died from breaking wind in the loo of his childhood home.
The funnyman revealed that during the 1970s, his parents would open their London abode to Iranians travelling to the UK for medical treatment. The kind-hearted couple would care for these individuals, ensuring they were well before sending them back home post-procedure.
Chatting on Gyles Brandreth’s Rosebud podcast, Omid mentioned that his folks believed in the healing power of laughter, especially post-surgery. However, this also meant he witnessed several people die due to their health conditions, reports the Mirror.
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In one peculiar incident, Omid recounted how a man laughed so hard that he went to the bathroom, let out a fart, and sadly died. The comic explained that paramedics informed the family that the man had “traumatised an anal nerve”.
He said: “There were a lot of Iranians coming over from Iran who were seeking medical help privately, like at Harley Street, so my father would take them in, take them to Harley Street, they would have their operations, and keep them in the house a week or two to convalesce, usually with laughter. There was a lot of laughter and both my parents were very funny because they said it had a great effect, and if you make people laugh they heal quicker.
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“This became famous, go to the Djalili home and you would have a place to stay, there’s a lovely atmosphere, they’ll sort out the medical things, and you’ll come back well.
“So there was a great turnover, I would say about a thousand from like 1979, up until he died, which was in 2017. But people died in the most extraordinary ways, they would be sitting around laughing, there was a man who was about to have a heart operation, he was laughing so much and went to the toilet. As the laughter died down in the living room we heard him in the toilet, he broke wind with such force, and we heard a crash and then we opened the door and saw he had died.”
The comedian continued, “He had actually traumatised an anal nerve connected to his heart by breaking wind so hard. So the ambulance men came in, and yeah, it happened a lot before, you shouldn’t really make them laugh and if you break wind with too much force, it’s too pressuring on the heart.”
Omid, who started his stand-up career in the ’90s and smashed Edinburgh Festival box office records in 2005, also shared some insights into his personal life. He reminisced about growing up in a 1930s style flat, where he would chat in Persian with his parents while switching to English with his siblings.
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