Director: Hamed Mirfattahi
Cast: Siamak Ansari, Amin Hayaiy, Sam Derakhshani, Amir Mehdi Jouleh, Bijan Banafshekhah
Joker is a 2021 Iranian comedy reality series directed by Hamed Mirfattahi, featuring a rotating roster of celebrated Iranian entertainers, athletes, and public figures locked in a room together with one deceptively simple challenge: make each other laugh without cracking a smile themselves.
What is Joker about?
Each episode of Joker places a group of well-known Iranian personalities inside a closed room where the rules are strict and the stakes are hilariously social. Contestants must perform jokes, pull pranks, and deploy every comedic tool at their disposal in an effort to break their rivals — all while keeping their own expression stone-cold. The moment someone laughs, they lose the round. Season one brings together some of the most recognizable faces in Iranian entertainment across comedy, cinema, and television, creating the kind of unpredictable chemistry that only genuine familiarity and mutual rivalry can produce. The format is fast, the pressure is real, and every episode delivers genuine surprises as friendships are tested and egos are cheerfully dismantled.
Cast & crew
Director Hamed Mirfattahi shapes the competition format with a sharp eye for comic timing and interpersonal tension. The season one cast includes comedy veterans Siamak Ansari and Amin Hayaiy, alongside popular screen talents Sam Derakhshani, Amir Mehdi Jouleh, Bijan Banafshekhah, Houman Haji Abdollahi, Amir Kazemi, and Soheil Mostajaabian — a lineup that spans multiple generations of Iranian entertainment.
Context & significance
For members of the Iranian diaspora, Joker offers something genuinely rare: a chance to see beloved figures from home in a context that is spontaneous, unguarded, and wholly themselves. The faces on screen are not playing characters — they are operating as themselves, under comedic pressure, and the warmth and mutual teasing that emerges carries a strong sense of cultural familiarity. Iranian comedy has a long tradition of wordplay and social wit; Joker channels that tradition into a modern competition format inspired by successful international versions, then fills it with personalities that Persian-speaking audiences already love. The show became a talking point across the diaspora community precisely because it felt both familiar and fresh at once.
Where & how to watch
Joker is available to stream on K-Time with original Persian audio and Persian subtitles. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, and no extra download needed. Start anytime and cancel anytime.