Is comedy a dieing art in kuwait ?
January 27, 2005
So I was watching the late night show special about Johnny Carson , and they were talking about how good he was and how he let small time comedian star on his show to give them a jump start
Some of the funniest comedians we see today were just stand up comedians before
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All of them were just standup comedian, then they climbed the ladder and have comedian writers writing materials for them (it doesn’t deny the fact that they them self are funny)
or have you seen “Last comic standing” it was a reality show were each stand up comedian is given a chance and then people vote who is the best ( a la Star academy )
I think we would need these programs more than programs that search for singers, my god singers are dime a dozen these days, ever seen the music channels on Nilesat or Arabsat? I’m sure we have more than America!!
But do we have the funny? Watch a Kuwaiti comedy play lately? No there isn’t much funny in it, and the best they can come up with is taking shots at the other actors (شفت ويهيك ؟ تقول غاسلينه بتايد) and other sad similar joke
And that is why a funny show in Arab world can’t be a funny show for more than 2-3 years
Dawod hussain has lost his touch after 3 years of funny programs, the Saudi show tash ma tash is asking for writers submission since the 7th year, and since 4th year they have been hit and miss, with more miss than hit episode every year , yasser al athama Syrian show “maraya “was funny first two years, , then it died in the third year and so on and so forth, and lets not start on Egyptians.
well.. you want arab standup comadien show? that would be funny, NOT funny as in Funny, i mean like, arabs doing standup is a joke, what will the arabs joke about? like u said, they will just go, LOOK AT UR FACE!ITS HUGE! AAAAAAAHAHAHHA and crap like that, the arab comedy is dead in my opinion, but might be revived, IF some good people do it, Dawood is just a piece of crap now, Tash ma tash wasn’t funny to begin with, it was just crap, slept on each episode, there is no funny anymore, sad…. … heck even american funny movies aren’t funny these days. what happened to our bill cosby man? NOW THATS FUNNY STUFF!.
Comment by Snakeam — 27/1/2005 @ 2:15 pm
dear readers ,
i really hope that we do get a chance here in kuwait to perform a stand up comedy, im into this field
i do comedy cd and songs , and recently ive took a lead rule in a kuwaity movie (jassoum ay shay)
i was the lead actor , all we need is a place were we could held these events and i know alot of ppl
here who are welling to perform the shows in english.. and arabic too.. i might be doing some candid
camera show for flash tv. what im saying if there is someone who is willing to make an effort about it
im in..
Comment by AQUA. mohammed — 1/4/2005 @ 7:33 am