Live television is hardly the most convenient setting in which to be reminded of the age-old proverb that only children and fools speak the truth.
So the father who nicknamed his child’s toy monkey after Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, must have been mortified to have his private joke cruelly exposed when the youngster took part in one of the country’s most popular TV phone-ins.
The embarrassing disclosure was made on Amoo Pourang (Uncle Pourang), a programme watched by millions of Iranian children three times a week on state TV. It came when the unsuspecting presenter, Dariush Farziayi, asked the name of the toy animal his young caller had been given as a reward for good behaviour.
“Well, my father calls him Ahmadinejad,” the child replied.
Now the father’s discomfort has spread to the programme-makers after the state broadcaster, IRIB, responded by withdrawing it from viewing schedules.
The final episode will be screened next week after a successful seven-year run.
Har!
People will die!
Apparently they didn’t watch enough Art Linkletter or Bill Cosby.
Is the world upside down or what?
What, I would say, only parts of it in oh so many different ways.
The problems of live TV. That is why most of them do have that 5 second delay.
The father is obviously a racist. Who else would refer to a head of state as a monkey?
@BillM #5
well played sir.
@BillM #5
I have to second that. Excellent point. 🙂
I can laugh at the boy’s father calling his monkey after the Iraning President just as I laughed at the comic. It is satire and it is a JOKE.