[gaspar]

Muslim Arabs have practically no sense of humor. They laugh at ceremonial castrations, cross-amputations and female circumcisions, but little else. Certainly, a soldier trapped in a minefield is worth a few laughs. So too is a pre-pubescent dressed to kill. Oh yes, an occasional donkey whipping may raise a smile, and I remember that I once saw a magician (gully-gully man) raise a grunt in the audience.

The story is told in Benghazi of a Libyan who was new to the United States and was taken to a New York comedy club shortly after he arrived in America: The sound of boisterous laughter nearly gave him a heart attack. The sound was utterly foreign to him. I could go on....

[mlmr]

What a sad thought that there could be a people without an ability to belly laugh...to truly enjoy. I think that is a gift of our Western culture...there were always jesters and clowns in our history.

[PJ-Comix]

Muslim Arabs have practically no sense of humor.

I don't know about Arabs but Iranians definitely have a sense of humor. I once knew an Iranian named Hassan and at first he didn't seem to have much of a sense of humor. Anyway, I sometimes would leave long messages in an Iranian accent on his answering machine as if I were Ayatollah Khomeini speaking to him from the dead and giving him strict instructions on how to avoid the temptations of American culture. That really cracked him up. So much so that when I quit leaving those impressions on his answering machine, he begged me to do it again so he would have some laughs when he got home.

[DBtoo]

Are you serious?