Comedy

Middle East Laughs

This pod follows comedians with the Israeli Palestinian Comedy Tour http://www.ipcomedytour.com), as they travel and perform in East Jerusalem. The tour was conceived by prominent Arab American journalist Ray Hanania , who started the IP Comedy Tour and became a performer after 9/11. The "IP Comedy Tour" has had several successful runs with sold out houses - both in Israel and in the U.S. - as well as extensive media coverage. The comedians are diverse-- Palestinian, Egyptian, secular Jewish, and Orthodox Jewish - yet share the common goal of promoting better understanding and diffusing mutual suspicion through the universality of laughter.
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7 responses // Middle East Laughs // Video

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    I am so happy!!!!! Kudos to you guys for this. Laughter can make a difference. Keep it up. And they are funny. I would love to came to one of their shows. I just can't say enough good things about this. This really made my day.

    chris50
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    I like that...it was pretty funny.

    amilli23
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    good stuff, drink some taybeh beer while laughing to these guys, Peace in the East!

    mejicolindoyquerido
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    I like this! yay!

    cigarettezack
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    This was an amazing trip. It was my first time going to Israel and Palestine. I enjoyed performing there but I also learned a lot about what I didn't see on the news. Comedy is ESSENTIAL to peace in the Middle East. That's just my opinion though :-)

    SHERIFTV
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    Am glad to see that different people are trying to get to peace in Palestine in different ways

    Prijedor
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    Some of those were pretty funny, although I have to say that the consensus among Palestinians (me included) is that Ray Hanania is something of an "Uncle Tom" Palestinian. Comedy is a nice distraction, but there won't be peace until there is justice. That means the resolution of core issues - East Jersualem, settlements, and the right of return. No amount of terrorist jokes is going to change that.

    sephseph

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