Sunday - November 07, 2010

If the Three Stooges tried to carry out their own Islamic jihad….

Late Sunday afternoon and here I am cos everybody has to be someplace. Good one Christopher. Reminds me of old Myron Cohen joke. Woman is having affair with this guy while husband out of town. But ... he comes home early while they’re at it. They hear him coming up the stairs and he’s frantic for a place to hide and so runs nude into the closet. Husband opens that door and sees the guy and asks what the hell he’s doing there and the guy says ......

Anyway ... speaking of funny things I just found this.  The subject is a sensitive one but damn if it isn’t funny.  Have any of you seen this movie? I’m only now discovering it isn’t even a brand new one but found it while going through The Canadian Press, with a resent dateline.
This is some very funny stuff.  I never thought I’d see humor in this but .... well, it is funny.  There more at YT. Naturally.

Movie review: Stooges for Allah: ‘Four Lions’ spins hilarious jihadist comedy

By David Germain (CP) – 3 days ago

If the Three Stooges tried to carry out their own Islamic jihad, the results could not be funnier than “Four Lions,” director Chris Morris’ wonderfully absurdist nightmare about terrorist wannabes.

Unlike the Stooges’ slapstick, “Four Lions” comes with terribly real consequences as a group of phenomenally incompetent British Muslims aims to carry out a round of suicide bombings.

This is a movie that will have you gasping in horror even as you choke on your own guffaws. It’s just that hysterical, often at the same moments when the film is at its most horrifying.

British TV veteran Morris, who shares screen writing credit with Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, developed the idea from research into the buffoonish side of extremism: Terrorists who lose their train of thought while recording martyrdom videos, bombers aiming to blow up a warship with a boat that sinks under the weight of the explosives.

As deadly as terrorists can be, Morris found they also sometimes are just a “bunch of blokes,” as prone to petty bickering, posturing, whining and wavering as the rest of us.

The blokes Morris presents are as clueless as most people would be if they set out to build homemade bombs and make a statement against the establishment.

Omar (Riz Ahmed) is in charge, not necessarily because of superior brain power but because he, unlike his accomplices, at least has some faint grasp of reality (if you recall Homer Simpson watching a Stooges episode and pronouncing, “Moe is their leader,” you’ll have a sense of the hierarchy in “Four Lions").

Challenging Omar at every turn is Islam convert Barry (Nigel Lindsay), a hilarious blowhard ("I am the most Al-Qaeda one here!") who would be down the pub cursing about the shortcomings of the home football team if he weren’t plotting revolution.

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