However, in a region more used to jack-ups than stand-ups, as the BBC reported last week, it may be a barrel of laughs to everyone.
Reporter Kevin Connolly’s wrote that comics in Qatar are developing an individual brand of humour, albeit one that uses accents and nationalities as the mainstay of jokes.
And unlike many countries in the world, it appears satirising the rich and powerful is not the done thing.
Connolly
