>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