Joe Palermo

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Sami Abu Wardeh lands Channel 4 satire on the super-rich, The Sheikh

Character comic and clown Sami Abu Wardeh takes the title role in The Sheikh, a satirical, semi-improvised show for Channel 4 in which he plays a Middle Eastern billionaire trying to immerse himself in British culture.

British Comedy Guide, 31st January 2023

Several comics and journalists all struck with illness

Mark Dean Quinn has been hospitalised by a stroke and was paralysed down one side; London-based Italian performer Joe Palermo has had a heart attack; Lynn Ruth Miller had what she calls a "mild" heart attack last week, and was later told she had inoperable oesophageal cancer; and John Fleming has been struck with vertigo.

John Flemning, John Fleming's Blog, 19th July 2021

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