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Australian Story: June 10

Former Pakistan journalist turned controversial stand-up comedian, Sami Shah features on Australian Story next week.

2013-06-05_1505Controversial stand-up comedian, Sami Shah features on Australian Story next week. A former journalist in Pakistan, Sami Shah is fast becoming a commentator on the politics of the sub-continent and the Middle East here in Australia. He recently won best local act at the Perth International Comedy Festival, having been in Australia for less than year.

Introduction by Adam Hills.

“‘But they’re taking all our jobs!’ I hear that one a lot,” says Sami Shah to an audience at the Perth International Comedy Festival.

“‘The illegal immigrants are talking all our jobs! What are we supposed to do?’ I don’t know, why not try being better at your f***ing job? If a guy who spent a week on a boat, lost half his family on the trip over, can’t speak the language and then spent two years in f***ing Nauru can take you job away from you, maybe it’s time to update your LinkedIn profile.”

Sami Shah has been in Australia for less than one year and he is already making a name for himself on the stand up comedy circuit in Western Australia.

He and his wife and toddler left the behind deaths threats and suicide bomb attacks of Karachi in Pakistan in search of a better life.

They have ended up in Northam, a town of almost seven thousand in West Australia and the adjustment has been much harder than Sami could have imagined.

In Northam Exposure we follow Sami on his journey from the wheat belt to the bright lights of Perth and beyond.

Ishma Alvi, Sami’s wife: ‘We’re always going to be that funny immigrant family and that’s fine. Maybe that another label and makes us stand apart and be different and I am fine with that.’

8pm Monday ABC1.

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