Are there any great Muslim comics / comedians, Muslim's don't seem to have much sense of humor?

Question

...or maybe they do but we don't see much evidence of it!

Reply to aziz_unreal79:
arrogant...me? I'm perfectly willing to be enlightened on this issue, that's why I asked.

Reply to itablok:
I think we all realise that the comic who does the Borat chracter is really a Jewish man.

Answer 1

Dave Chappelle is Muslim. Is that good enough for you?
http://www.nndb.com/people/673/000022607/
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,16556,00.html?tnews

There's a Muslim female comedian called Shazia Mirza.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazia_Mirza

Jamel Debbouze is a Muslim French comedian, very popular in France!
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-12/21/article02.shtml

Azhar Usman - American Muslim Comedian
http://www.azhar.com/
http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=2207042005

Akmal Saleh is pretty good too!

There are alot of Arabic Muslim comedians too.

Religion has nothing to do with humor.

Answer 2

There are Mulim comics in the US . They have been profiled in articles in major papers, and have websites. Apparently Muslims comics have been popular for over 1 year and this is a well known trend among comedy fans.A check on Google yields many sites, here are a few:.

http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2022/context/cover/
http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/a-laughing-matter-of-life-and-death/2006/01/31/1138590449321.html
http://www.altmuslim.com/perm.php?id=1231_0_26_0_C27
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HEY EARTH ANGEL YOUR SLIP IS SHOWING
you say "I think we all realise that the comic who does the Borat chracter is really a Jewish man."
This clearly show you already know there are Muslims comics-- and that this question is just an opportunity for you to manufacture the gratuitious slur that "Muslim's don't seem to have much sense of humor."

Answer 3

maximum Muslim comedians stay in Muslim international places so that you received't have heard of them; wonderful isn't it? In Britain there is 1/2 the solid of Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars At variety 40 2, (I scent of Oui) and a minimum of two comedians who seem on television Azhar Usman, i imagine is Iranian and there is a lady comic Shazia Mirza

Answer 4

Man, you are so wrong.

I went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year and saw a comedian called Omid Djalilli. The Edinburgh Festival is a huge week longs arts festival with a focus on comedy.

Omid Djalilli sold out all his shows, and was the top rated performer in the festival. He was the funniest thing I'd seen in ages!

Check him out, he probably has DVDs and stuff out.

Edit: I've seen Shazia Mirza too. She's amusing but not laugh out loud funny. Djalilli is the man.

Answer 5

The Arabian Knights. Three guys who travel as a package tour, like the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.

Answer 6

there are many. I live in a Islamic country (I'm not a Muslim myself) so I have inside information!. around a year ago one of the greatest caricaturists died here and the vice-president was the first in the line in his memorial. he ( the dead caricaturist used to draw vice-president's caricature in the front page!) but Muslims unlike others don't take kindly to insults that is directed against their religion.

Answer 7

There's a young British muslim woman called Shazia Mirza - I saw her on telly a while back - she's funny, and pretty brave too. I admire her. She's got a wicked sense of humour. You should check her out.

Answer 8

if you can overlook your arrogance and learn a few languages that Muslims speak, you won't have to look too hard.

there are lots of good stand-up-comedians, comics, movies. search the web.

Answer 9

First I want to say that there is no relationship between the relegion and the sense of humor .Second most of the Muslems
are Arabs,Iranians,Indonesians,etc and each of these countries has its own language and culture ,so ,unless you know their language or culture how can you feel weather they have such sense of humour or not.

Answer 10

There might be. The only side of Muslims "we" see are the ones shown on TV.