Shaparak Khorsandi

Known for Acting

6/8/1973(Age 52)

Tehran, Iran

Biography

Shaparak "Shappi" Khorsandi is a British comedian and author of Iranian origin. The daughter of the Iranian political satirist and poet Hadi Khorsandi, her family left Iran when she was a child following the Islamic Revolution. In January 2016, she became president of Humanists UK, and became vice-president in 2019.

Known For (34 credits)

Sally Lindsay's Quiz Night

2025

Questions to answer, games to play, and classic clips to enjoy, on topics from sitcoms to scary children's programmes, food to pop music, gameshows to the biggest headlines.

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Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness

2025

A star-studded documentary revealing the private man behind one of Britain’s greatest comic geniuses, using home movies and extracts from notebooks that he wanted to be burnt after his death.

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The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

2024

Produced over four years with full access from Ken’s widow Lady Dodd, the film takes an in-depth look into Doddy’s private world, exploring the many secrets of his comic talent, revealing never-before-seen home-videos, stage performances and extracts from some of the thousands of Ken’s diary notebooks which he’d asked his wife to burn after his death. Wrestling with her conscience for quite some time, Lady Dodd, finally agrees with entertainment historians, museum curators and many of Ken’s admirers like Stephen K Amos, Harry Hill, Shaparak Khorsandi, Lee Mack, Paul O’Grady, Johnny Vegas, and Sir Ian McKellen to preserve Doddy’s notebooks for posterity. These stars explore their passion and memories of Ken in this candid, insightful film which takes you backstage behind the red curtain to reveal a far more intriguing man than the public or even his wife ever realised.

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Shaparak Khorsandi: Shapchat!

2023

In the blink of an eye, Shappi has clocked up 50 years on this planet, a quarter-century as a comedian. What would the 25-year-old Shaparak think of this incarnation? Two dogs: very good. Tory friends: what has she become!? And why are there still so many things she doesn’t know, or is just learning now: is it going to take another 50 years? A fast-paced, celebratory hour from this much-loved Fringe institution and the author of forthcoming memoir, Scatterbrain.

Katie Piper's Breakfast Show

2022

The model and Loose Women panellist presents a Sunday morning chat show featuring celebrity guests, advice from experts and tips for entertainment in the week ahead.

Ian Cognito: A Life and A Death On Stage

6.3

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Ian Cognito: A Life and A Death On Stage

2022

Rising to fame amid the 1980s alternative comedy boom, Ian Cognito was one of the UK's most popular comedians. His performances left audiences in hysterics - but behind the laughter was a troubled and often controversial figure. This is the story of the comedy scene that nurtured a comedic genius, and the real life of a man famed for his outlandish sense of humour.

6.0

The Weakest Link

2021

Romesh Ranganathan takes charge of the back-stabbing big money game show. Can the contestants create a chain of answers and avoid the boot?

6.7

Late Night Mash

2021

Up-to-the-minute topical insights and fake news reports.

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Shappi Khorsandi: Live In SoHo

2020

Over her 20-year career, Shappi has performed sell-out shows all over the UK and internationally, been nominated for the prestigious British Comedy Award and appeared on every comedy panel from Mock The Week to Have I got News For News. In this hour, Shappi talks about what it means to be addicted to stand-up, to have a very controversial father, and to bring a pudding to a red-carpet event...

7.0

Hypothetical

2019

Hosted by Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster, top comedians are posed absurd hypothetical situations and scored on how well they would deal with them. Over three rounds, two teams of comedians must think fast as they are faced with a series of completely made-up scenarios and interrogated on their approach to each one. Host Josh Widdicombe poses the questions and interrogates the guests' methods, whilst James Acaster, as arbiter of the Hypotheticals, deals with the guests quibbles and queries and doles out the points.

Morecambe & Wise in America

2018

Three part series hosted by Jonathan Ross, telling the story of Eric and Ernie's attempts to break America. Over the course of five years in the 1960s, Morecambe and Wise made multiple trips to New York to appear on the USA's biggest variety show, The Ed Sullivan Show. The untold story of their attempt to make it in the States is documented for the first time, including footage that has never been shown on British television before.

6.0

Richard Osman's House of Games

2017

Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.