“Eretz Nehederet” (“A Wonderful Country“), a satirical comedy show in Israel similar to America’s once-brilliant and edgy “Saturday Night Live”, aired a comedy sketch on November 5th where two Columbia University students express their support for Palestine by interviewing a member of Hamas.
Watch the video before it’s censored forever:
“I major in Queer Post-Colonial Astronomy”… ROTFL!
This isn’t just funny because it almost guarantees a minimum-wage career but also because it might be possible to actually major in it at Harvard University… or, at least attend a Postcolonial Astrology Workshop.
“I want to clear something up just so you know – any drama between me and my friend, Bibi, over the years was just a plot to create material for ‘A Wonderful Country’. That’s the only thing that was going on. We just wanted to make sure the writers had good material.”
– Barack Obama, former US President, March 21, 2013, in Jerusalem, Israel, as quoted by IMDB.com
Did you know?
Perhaps Barack Obama didn’t provide the comedy writers enough “good material”: In 2015 Obama’s State Department — headed by former Massachusetts Senator and now the first U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry — gave $300,000 of US Taxpayer money to fund the OneVoice Movement, which “…absorbed and funded an Israeli group named Victory15 or ‘V15′ and launched a multimillion-dollar grassroots campaign in Israel…” to stop the re-election of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Word | Meaning |
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simp | excessive sympathy (also spelled as “symp”) |
brah | “brother”, an abbreviation of the Hawaiian Pidgin slang word “braddah” |
sis | dishonest or untrustworthy (short for “suspect”) |
drip | a fashionable, eye-catching look or style (perhaps short for “dripping”?) |
shukran | Arabic for “Thank you” |
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