Shappi Khorsandi who is a stand-up comedian

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The daughter of Hadi Khorsandi, she was born in Iran and says her earliest memory is ‘riding on a bicycle in Tehran, on my uncle’s lap at dawn, to get chocolate milk’. She and her family were forced to flee from Iran to London after the Islamic Revolution following the publication of a satirical poem her father composed which was seen as critical of the revolutionary regime.

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