smoking. i went to a gym and there was treadmill and ashtray. arab men fighting over check, and using words god willing, we know this, overuse of those terms. jokes about them holding a mirror up to them in front of their own culture, without getting into religion. you can t tell joes about islamism, judaism or christianity. it s not like going up there buddhi buddhist, fair game. but the point is, the it s still in the infancy. the reason we limit ourselves because we don t want to destroy this movement of comedy across the region. it s exciting to see this. do you think there s a change in the way the u.s. is viewed in that region, as you re traveling around, since the cleavage between bush and obama and obama made this speech in cairo and everybody looked at the election of obama as signaling the american people giving a negative referendum to the bush regime. has that change the the way it had. i performed in cairo the day after president obama was