People from the Middle East and North Africa are rarely short on humor. We’re known for taking the worst of situations and making light of it, and to a fault sometimes.

Here are 9 comedians that put that on full display:

On Arab fathers:

1. “They’ll have the same phone for like 15 years.” – Nemr Abou Nassar, Lebanon

On flying while Muslim:

2. “After September 11, my opening joke was My Name is Ahmed Ahmed, and I can’t fly anywhere.” – Ahmed Ahmed, Egypt

On Arab nicknames:

3. Imran Al Aradi, Bahrain

On Arab girls at the “gym”:

4. Tima Shomali, Jordan

On Saudis being Saudis:

5. Fahad Albutairi, Saudi Arabia

On the fact that Iranians aren’t Arabs:

6. “I mean we’re all the same in that we’re all getting shot at.”- Maz Jobrani, Iran

On our obsession with hummus:

7. “You put it on everything. Hummus is white people’s new mayonnaise.” – Eman El-Husseini, Palestine

On Egyptian mothers:

8. “Egyptian mothers are the only women in the world that can turn into doctors in three seconds.” – Hashem El Garhy, Egypt

On customer service in Dubai:

9. Ali Al Sayed, Dubai