Coco Khan

He's also the co-founder of the Palestinian Comedy Collective.

A new documentary shows them crossing checkpoints and borders to perform in theatres across the region before the genocide began.

I love you.

You're amazing.

You're very, very, very funny.

They also started to get more notice internationally and came to London for a series of gigs starting on the 7th of October 2023.

As the conflict escalated back home, the group found themselves stranded.

Alar, welcome to Pod Save the UK.

Some listeners might be hearing you speak, hearing Tess Ingram speak and think, but why comedy?

You know, there's so much tragedy and hardship.

Why do you use comedy in the way that you're using it?

Why did you set it up, this Palestine Comedy Club?

Where did you buy those fucking hats?

So your new show, The Horse of Jenin, is a look really at your upbringing.

What's it like performing that so close personal show to UK audiences?

Especially when you know that so much of the Palestinian population are kids, young.

It's a very young population.

And just that, you know, the picture you portrayed there of just...

You cannot reach your potential.

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