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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Step aside, Seinfeld...

Speaking of strong women, two muslim standup comediennes have been giving Mr Rushdie a run for his fatwa-inciting publicity (back in the news, BTW).

Shabana Rehman made headlines in the popular press last week by dropping her pants and baring her buttocks at a film festival in Haugesund, in southwest Norway. She also frenched the Norwegian Culture Minister onstage and gave a punjabi shaadi welcome to a fundamentalist with suspected Al Qaeda links. Is that gutsy or what?

Ah, but she can get away with all this, because this is Norway, right? Not quite.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Especially if they are in Norwegian.

Shazia Mirza, on the other hand, uses her wry, very non-desi sense of humor:
''Hello, my name is Shazia Mirza ... at least that's what it says on my pilot's license.'' Her delivery was deadpan, and for a second the audience seemed stunned. Then they burst out laughing.

On her pilgrimage to Mecca, the Islamic holy site:
''Someone pinched my bum; I thought it was the hand of God''

Then there's the one about the female militant and the bomb:
''Do you think my bomb looks big in this?"

You go, girls!

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