Iraqi Comedy Show

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I just thought this was an interesting article...
Iraqi comedy show pulls no punches

With seemingly no sacred cows, it provides insight into how Iraqis see their country's problems, through its lampooning of the Americans, the Iraqi government, the militias and the head of Iraq's state-owned media company.

Even the show's name is a joke. The title first appears on the screen as "The Government," but then the word is split in half, producing an Iraqi slang phrase that means, "Hurry Up, He's Dead."

I'm not sure which is more interesting...the fact that "The Government" can be split in such a way as to turn it into "hurry up, he's dead" or the fact that "hurry up, he's dead" is so common in Iraq that there is a slang phrase for it.

 

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This is interesting:

Saaed Khalifa, 43, an Iraqi actor who fled to Syria after the fall of Saddam's regime, plays all the main characters on the show. "I accepted this part because I wanted to prove myself as an actor and an Iraqi man loyal to his country," he said.

Is it just me?