Now, the best breeding ground for good comic writing is the stand up comedy circuit, where they just happen to say that you kill when you do well and you bomb when you do badly.

He's a comedian.

He is a comedian.

Comedies, documentaries, shorts.

It's the blockbuster comedy.

This is the story of the rise and rise of stand up comedy in the Middle East a stand up uprising, if you will.

This is not unlike the world of comedy.

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Which of the TV programs do you like best?

Now, were the Axis successful?

So, as for the outsiders looking in, watch the CNN report on the second Amman Comedy Festival.

Because American dramas are very bloody, he doesn't like watching them.

We were all amused with the comedy.

And that's when I discovered comedy.

who had started a successful new tribe.

20 years ago, no one had heard of it.

Who can tell me what a tragicomedy is?

Jamil Abu Wardeh jump started the comedy scene in the Arab world by founding the Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour, which brings standup comedians to laughing audiences all over the region. He's found that, by respecting the three B's , the Axis of Evil comics find plenty of cross border laughs.

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Baristas need to make a sitcom.

My job was to connect the brand with a Middle Eastern audience.

Well, if you're used to listening to comedians, then I'm not surprised.

As my physical therapist likes to say, Every step is a tragedy waiting to happen.

These comics are now going to the New York festival.

I was one of the founding members of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour.

First, we'd need to buy content from the West and air it.

But now, we have a different kind of comic.

Working in London as TV maker and writer, I quickly realized that comedy connects audiences.

I'd say, watch any successful well written, family friendly sitcom in the West for your answers.

Also, three guys working for years in Los Angeles, an Iranian, a Palestinian and an Egyptian, created the aptly named Axis of Evil comedy act.

Now, I happened to be in Times Square that night doing a comedy show.

Don't get me wrong it's not like we don't have comedy in the Middle East.

Now comedy travels along a distinct wavelength from other forms of language.

Misdirection isn't the only trick that comedy has up its sleeve.

Now my husband, Chris, and I love this show.

Right, so, let the robot stand up comedy begin.

If you see a comic movie, you go off to the left side.

But one of the things I try to do with my stand up is to break stereotypes.

It's still going strong, with positive press to die for.

In a thick Arabic accent, my brain went, Berfect.

It's the Beverly Hillbillies, basically.

And so I was in Kuwait recently, doing a comedy show with some other American comedians.

Jamil Abu Wardeh The Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour

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