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In tough times, Arab comics decide to ham it up

13th Nov 2006, 09:16 GMT

The other day, someone asked the stand-up comic Dean Obeidallah if, as an Arab man, he was offended by those infamous cartoons of Mohammed. He wasn't, he said: Firstly, he's Arab, not Muslim. Secondly, he's got bigger fish to fry. ''I'm offended by the daily rhetoric of right-wing jackasses,'' he said, mentioning inflammatory TV pundits like Glenn Beck on CNN Headline News. (Globe Insider subscribers only)

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