Television What To Watch Up, up and away: The life and death of Yuri Gagarin Todays highlights With Adam Hyland Pick Of The Day Yuri Gagarin Bs Laoch TG4, 9.30pm Tonight this excellent series examining the life and death of various icons looks to the skies and the extraordinary achievements of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. His was a fascinating life he rose from poverty to acclaim in the Soviet Air Force before finally making his mark as the first to orbit the Earth, which makes his death in an air crash all the more tragic, and not without its mystery. Inquests by the military (twice), the government, and the KGB mean his demise will forever be a source of controversy. Nigel Slaters Simple Suppers BBC1, 7.30pm Weve all been there tired and hungry after a horrible Monday at work, with only yesterdays leftovers to look forward to as an unappetising dinner. But you can do much more with these than just re-heat them, as Nigel Slater shows us tonight. He takes the remains of the Sunday roast and prepares some surprisingly tasty dishes that wont take long to cook and more importantly, wont taste like yesterdays rejects. RT1 RT2 TV3 7.15 The Afternoon Show (R) 8.55 Holby City (T) 10.00 Judge Joe Brown 10.20 The Doctors 11.10 Dr Phil 12.00 Shortland Street (T) 12.30 Doctors (T) 1.00 News And Weather 1.25 Home And Away (T) 1.55 Neighbours (T) Dan confronts Lucas. 2.20 EastEnders (R,T) Lucas is quizzed by the police. 3.00 How Clean Is Your House? 3.30 Fair City (R,T) 4.00 The Afternoon Show. Entertainment and features. 5.45 Nuacht RT 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 News And Weather (T) 7.00 Nationwide (T) News stories from around the country. 7.30 Showhouse (R,T) Interior design challenge. 7.57 Lotto 8.00 Fair City (T) Zumo reveals he has made a float for the parade. 8.30 Higher Ground (T) The experts provide a cake decorator with business advice. 9.00 News And Weather (T) 9.35 FILM: How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (2003) A journalist puts her theories on how women deter prospective partners to the test. Comedy, starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. 11.40 RT News And Weather (T) 11.45 Oireachtas Report Coverage of the days political proceedings. 12.15 The Devil Came On Horseback 8.50 The Adventures Of Bottle Top Bill And His Best Friend Corky 9.05 Den Tots 2.05 The Den: Raggs 2.40 Tak And The Power Of Juju 3.05 Shaun The Sheep 3.15 Kazoo 3.30 Ballybraddan (R) 3.45 Neds Declassified School Survival Guide 4.15 The Latest Buzz 4.40 Ice 5.00 News 5.10 Hannah Montana. Adventures of a teenage pop star. 5.35 Neighbours (T) Dan confronts Lucas. 6.00 The Simpsons (T) Cartoon capers with the unmistakable family. 6.30 Home And Away Nicole has an embarrassing run- in with the police. 7.00 RT Sport On Two: Champions League Live Liverpool v Debrecen (Kick-off 7.45pm). The Reds begin their Group E campaign at Anfield tonight, as they entertain the relatively unknown quantity of the Hungarian champions. This will be the first meeting between the teams and marks the visitors debut appearance at this stage of the competition, as they bid to record arguably the biggest scalp in their history. The hosts have started the domestic season poorly, but have generally saved their best form for Europe in recent years and are favourites to begin their assault on Barcelonas crown by collecting maximum points this evening. 11.00 RT News On Two And World Forecast (T) 11.30 FILM: Evil (2003) Drama. 1.35 Mad Men (R,T) The Sterling Cooper team watches the election returns. 7.00 Ireland AM 10.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R) 11.00 The Morning Show With Sybil And Martin. 11.50 Midday 12.50 Xpos (R) 1.20 The Oprah Winfrey Show 2.10 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 3.05 Emmerdale (R,T) Nikhil and Jai clash when they hold interviews at the sweet factory. 3.30 Colin And Justins Home Heist. A hippie couples cluttered home is revamped. 4.30 Judge Judy. Double bill. 5.30 News@5.30 6.00 Xpos Daily entertainment news, with Karen Koster. 6.30 Friends (R) The pals celebrate Rachels 30th birthday and reminisce about their own. 7.00 Emmerdale (T) Jamie is devastated when Gennie reveals that she slept with Bob. 7.30 Little People, Big World Zach misses out on meeting dwarf girls. 8.00 All Saints Dan treats a man injured during an armed robbery, forcing him to re-assess how he is dealing with Ericas disappearance. 9.00 I Didnt Know I Was Pregnant Stories of women who gave birth without realising they had conceived. Featuring dramatic reconstructions and interviews. See highlights. 10.00 Hells Kitchen USA Gordon Ramsay attempts to fashion a group of masterchefs from American cooks. 11.00 Nightly News 11.05 Tonight With Vincent Browne The host presents a panel discussion on a variety of subjects. 12.00 to 3.00 Play TV. 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm :60second interview Maz Jobrani Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani juggles stand-up with acting roles, including TVs ER, The West Wing and Curb Your Enthusiasm and on film, The Interpreter and Dragonfly. Next week he makes his Irish debut with Shappi Khorsandi at the Bulmers International Comedy Festival Interview by Lucy White Every place we went [in the Middle East], the promoters would say, Hey guys, you can talk about anything you want, but no religion and no politics Is this your first time in Dublin? The first time to Ireland. Im expecting cool weather and definitely a pint of Guinness. How did you get from studying political science into showbusiness? I always wanted to be a comedian since I was a kid I was a big fan of Eddie Murphy. My parents, being traditionally Iranian, wanted me to be a doctor, lawyer or an engineer. But part-way through studying law, I decided I wanted to be a professor so I went to get my PhD in political science at UCLA, where I started doing some plays again. So I dropped out of that... How did the Axis Of Evil Tour come about? The owner of The Comedy Store, LA, Mitzi Shore Pauly Shores mother she watches a lot of news, and the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis was picking up. She said theres going to be a need for positive voices for Middle Easterners around the world and this was before 9/11. Shed do these speciality shows, like a black comedy night or a Latino night and wanted to do a Middle Eastern night. She found Ahmed Ahmed, I knew Aron Kader, so she put us all together. Anyone at that time who wasnt Latino or black ended up on our show we had Indians, you name it. She called us Arabian Knights, which was a bone of contention for Iranians: Look, were not Arab; were Persians. So in 2005, we changed our name to the Axis Of Evil Comedy Tour and did our own shows. Did you have to self-censor your material when it toured the Middle East? Every place we went, the promoters would say, Hey guys, you can talk about anything you want, but no religion and no politics. Or, Actually, just not local politics. That said, Ahmed and I went to Saudi for some shows and I thought itd be really conservative. A local guy was one of the openers, Im backstage, and all of a sudden I hear him cussing in the Thriller dance scene? No! Im at the party where the dance scene happens but they had me and a couple of people standing on the side watching. The producer said later, Hey, we shouldve had you guys dancing! and I was like, Hell yeah, you should have! You were in The Interpreter. Was Sean Penn a barrel of laughs? He was actually very funny. He told jokes in between, he was very nice one of the film icons of our era. Do you have any movies in the pipeline? I have a recurring part on a US sitcom called Better Ofted, and another in Rita Rocks. Im touring a lot but Ive also written a film called Jimmy Vestwood: The American Hero, and its kind of like the Persian Pink Panther. Its about a guy living in Westwood with his mother, who has always wanted to be like Steve McQueen. So he stumbles on this little mystery and saves the day. Maz Jobrani And Friend perform at the Olympia on Sep 26. www.bulmerscomedy.ie and swearing, and the audience is cracking up. In Dubai, we had to submit our act to the censors. The thing is, comedians dont write out their set before going on stage. So you do the show your way anyway. You lived in Tehran until the age of six and have described the curfews and gun-fire as exciting, like being in a bat cave... Yeah! I thought that was kind of neat. I had no idea what was going on. The police would drive by and shine torches into the house to make sure the lights were off. My dad was on business in New York and sent for me, my sister and my mom to go visit during our school holiday. We basically packed for two weeks and ended up staying for 30 years. We had even left my baby brother behind when we first went out because we thought wed be back. Youve been in loads of films, including 13 Going On 30. Were you 14 metrolife Wednesday, September 16, 2009 index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html