Axis of Comedy

Last Friday night Chris and I went to see the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour in Boston. It's a traveling show of four Middle-Eastern American comedians. There was an Egyptian, an Iranian (though he preferred to be called Persian, "Like the cat, meow!"), a Palestinian, and another guy who was half Italian.

They joked about what it's like to be a Muslim in America post-9/11.

It's amazing to me how they can find humor in the suspicious stares they get, and the airport discrimination. I guess it's good to laugh about it. In a way, I think I can relate to some of what they go through, but as shitty and difficult as it sometimes is to be gay, I can't even imagine how it is to be Muslim right now.

The audience was very diverse and international. The girl sitting behind me was telling the boy behind me about how she just got a job in Gaza, on the West Bank. It wasn't the first time I realized how little my world-view is.