TIM SEBASTIAN
Ladies and gentlemen a very good evening to you and welcome to the last in our current series of Doha Debates coming to you from the Gulf State of Qatar and sponsored by the Qatar Foundation. Let's face it, we haven't given you a lot to smile about in recent debates. The Middle East tends to serve up a regular diet of death and destruction mixed in with plenty of lies and broken promises. Come to think of it, maybe not so different from tonight's theme after all. That age old battle for supremacy between men and women, and the question of who's really boss. Our motion tonight, as delicate as any we've chosen before: ‘This House believes that women are superior to men'. Well, four comedians have agreed to wade into these dangerous waters. Speaking for the motion Azhar Usman, a stand up comedian from the US, co-founder of the Allah Made me Funny official Muslim comedy tour. In the United States he's used to getting dirty looks as a Muslim, now that he's in the Arab world he's looking forward to being hated just for being American. And with him, Maysoon Zayid, a stand up comedienne well known in the Middle East, she's co-star of the Arab's Gone Wild comedy tour and admits to having made both friends and enemies. When a woman came to clean her hotel room today she was convinced she was about to be assassinated, so please nobody make any sudden movements tonight. Against the motion, Carrie Quinlan, British actress, writer and comedienne and a regular at the Edinburgh Festival in the UK. She says she's so British she once apologised to a man who was trying to steal her handbag. And with her, Robin Ince, a well known comic performer and writer in Britain. He's recently completed a work featuring some of his favourite bad books, including one entitled, Did Spacemen Colonise the Earth? He says the answer is: ‘No', but when you look around at the panel how can you be sure. Ladies and gentlemen this is our panel. So now let me first call on Azhar Usman to speak for the motion.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
The Doha Debate Comedy special: This House believes women are superior to men
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