Maliki Mardinalli
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's a simple format, six comedians, seven minutes each.
The room is full, maybe two, three hundred people.
Maliki opens the show.
He asks the audience not to take videos or photos or post on social media because they just got in trouble with the government for promoting homosexuality.
Maliki tells a version of the flip-flop joke, how security forces have been fighting for 14 years but keep their toes out.
It gets a big laugh.
Sharif tells a joke that definitely would have gotten him into trouble under the Assad regime.
It shows you how much things have changed in Syria this last year.
It's about Asma al-Assad, the dictator's wife, who had breast cancer.
Technically, it's about her bra.
Here's the setup.
December 8th, 2024.
The Assad's flee for Russia.
Syrians go to the abandoned presidential palace to loot it, taking little trophies, souvenirs.
He holds up half of a bra.
The other half is missing.
Biggest laugh of the night.
Afterwards, I talked to a few members of the audience.
How was the show tonight?
One guy said he was depressed before the show.