Talking about humor, Mark Twain once said, “The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away.”
So maybe there’s hope for Iraq. After the most lethal summer since the 2003 invasion, Iraqis seem to be finding solace in a darkly satirical new TV show called — this is a loose translation — “Hurry Up, He’s Dead.”
The show, in a fake news format modeled after “The Daily Show,” skewers the Americans, the Iraqi government, the militias and the head of Iraq’s state-owned media company.
“Hurry Up, He’s Dead” is filmed in Dubai; it’s still too dangerous to do it in Baghdad.
Posted by Dave Knadler
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Well at least they can die laughing.
cartoon sound effect:wa wa waa…
Can’t wait to see The Daily Show’s take on this story.
Interesting, there appears to be a takeover in Dubai by a hostile force called Hypertext Markup Protocol.
Perhaps they are caught up in a Web of deceipt or caught in an Internet.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh…..George Bernard Shaw