Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 12-29-2009 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Comedy
NYT: AMMAN, Jordan — For all of the animosity, mistrust and lack of understanding between the West and the Muslim world, this small Middle Eastern country has demonstrated that most people here have the capacity to laugh at themselves — and at jokes about bodily functions, too.
When comedians from North America faced a theater packed with Arabs this month and poked fun at the local practice of marrying a cousin, tweaked Palestinians as being skilled stone throwers, feigned fright at an audience member named Osama, everyone laughed, and laughed hard.
When it comes to humor, apparently, there is no clash of civilizations.
“Back at home people ask me, do Arabs laugh?” said Dean Obeidallah, a stand-up comedian originally from New Jersey who was executive producer of the Amman Stand-Up Comedy Festival. “I will be honest, you guys laugh more than Americans.”
To read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/world/middleeast/24jordan.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
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