The Return of the Court Jester

may their tribe increase.

btw, I liked the chicago lawyer`s `tasteless` jokes that malik has reproduced :)

shazia mirza also I`ve heard of, someone had writtena piece on her on chowk if memory serves right.

us subcontinentals could do witha healthy dose of good-natured self-deprecation now and then. we take ourselves way too seriously.

doublec # 3 - you asked ``Why have a ``Muslim Comedy Festival``? Why would one label themselves as Muslim comedians..... why not just plain comedians? ``

Not sure if you are a muslim or not. But if you are, you probably would have gone through ``special registeration`` process 2 years ago for pretty much all non-citizen immigrants in US who all happened to be muslims. On border crossings, muslims are being paid special attention. Cat Stevens is deported because he is a muslim. If having ties with ``extremists`` was his crime, then almost all of israeli politicians should be deported too -since they are all tied to extremists. But since in cat Steven`s case, he is tied to MUSLIM extremists, that makes it a deportable crime.

While the illegal mexican and el salvadoran immigrants roam free in the streets of US, the muslim illegal immigrants were deported with relentless tenacity.

So given all that, it makes sense that a group of people take it upon themselves to find some humor in this ethnic and racial profiling of muslims. Blacks have done that since they too have been long targeted because of the color of their skin. Black comedy events are pretty common. Just turn on HBO.

I am surprised that you are so naive!!

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Why have a ``Muslim Comedy Festival``? Why would one label themselves as Muslim comedians..... why not just plain comedians?
So now are we to await a ``Jewish Comedy Festival``, a ``Christian Comedy Festival`` or a ``Hindu Comedy Festival``?

Ayub - Good one! Hope you enjoyed. Wish I was there. In fact, when I lived in Toronto, I was a few minutes walk from Yuk Yuk club. I believe the comic from Chicago that you mentioned is Azhar Usman. Here are a few of Muslim comedians jokes.

Azhar`s jokes:

- I just flew in from Chicago, and boy are my arms ... confiscated. (`arms` here refers to weapons)

- Take my wives ... please.

- Hey, what do Muslim terrorists and Muslim comics have in common? They bomb.

Shazia Mirza`s Jokes:

- People ask me, `Do women really have to walk five steps behind the men?` I say, `Yeah, they look better from behind.`

- On the long garments worn by traditional Muslim women. ``I think they`re great. You don`t have to diet. My grandmother says she`s religious. She`s not – she`s just fat.``

Rasul Somji`s jokes

- I received a Christmas gift from my Christian girlfriend. And being Muslim, I gave her a hostage.

- We`ve made a lot of progress towards ending racism in America. But we`ve been hearing about it for decades. A black man says he can never get a fair trial in America. But Arabs and Muslims say they can`t even get a trial.

- I`m worried they`re going to put race and religion on driver`s licenses. ... So when I get pulled over ... I get two tickets!

ahmed ahmed`s jokes

In his routine, Egyptian-born Ahmed Ahmed lamented that ``it`s a bad time to be named Ahmed.`` Once, the 33-year-old comedian from California joked, a ticket agent was skeptical about his occupation. ``Oh, you`re a comedian,``` the agent purportedly said. ```Say something funny.```

Pause.

``Ah-h-h . . . I just graduated from flight school?``

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