British stand-up helps to kick-start comedy in Saudi Arabia

It is not the first place on earth that you would expect to find comedians who mock the daily absurdities of life. But it is in Saudi Arabia that Rehman Akhtar has lit the flame of comedy in a movement of young stand-ups who are confounding western stereotypes of what is acceptable in this conservative country.

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