Omid Djalili, comedian and actor " portrait of the artist
The stage star talks reveals how comedy cost him his athletic figure, why he struggles to be taken seriously as an actor " and why doing a 10-metre dive on Splash! changed his lifeWhen did you discover you could make people laugh?I was six years old and in a show-and-tell session at school. The teacher had brought coconut shells, and said if you click them together, they sound like a horse. When it was my turn, I ran…