Katie Couric, CBS News’ pert and perky anchor came up with an idea:
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“Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show,” Couric said. “I know that sounds crazy, I know that sounds crazy. But The Cosby Show did so much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country, and I think sometimes people are afraid of what they don’t understand…” (see video)
Crazy, Katie? We think not. We think it’s gold. Pure, unadulterated, 24-carat comedy gold. And with that in mind, IHateTheMedia.com has come up with some great ideas for Muslim sitcoms. And we offer them to Hollywood absolutely free of charge.
All we ask is an Executive Producer credit. Is that too much to ask?
1. Everybody Hates Christian (Chris Rock stars as a Muslim teenager growing up in a poor Islamabad neighborhood)
2. Fatwa Knows Best (The Anwar family learns that their father, a Muslim cleric, has a fatwa for every problem)
The Fresh Prince of Beirut: Tuesdays at 9/8 Central on al-Jezeera TV
3. The Fresh Prince of Beirut (A poor, young Muslim mosque chanter moves in with a wealthy Lebanese family)
4. 3rd Iraq from the Sun (The misadventures of an alien family that attempts to fit into Baghad)
5. My Name Is Earl Qaeda (A lovable Muslim loser attempts to make amends to all the people he killed. Oops. Too late.)
6. Amos ‘n Abdul (Two Black Muslim friends experience Uncle Tomfoolery in Chicago’s inner city)
7. How I Beat Your Mother (A Muslim man tells his children how he subjugates his wife according to Sharia law)
8. The Really Big Bang Theory (Two Muslim nerds work on a nuclear weapon)
9. That 1370s Show (A wacky band of Muslim teenagers remind us what life was like in the 14th century)
10. Mork & Minaret (A stranger from an alien culture has misadventures in Tehran)
11. Gilligan’s Islam (An inept Muslim convert is stranded in a 13th century religion)
Fatima al-Fatima stars as sluttish fag hag Grace in Will & Grace, Fridays at 9/8 Central on MSNBC
12. Will and Grace (The show never actually airs because Will is hanged and Grace is stoned to death in the pilot)
13. Welcome Back Kafir (A Muslim convert returns to teach at his old madrassa)
14. Chico and Iran (A Mexican convert to Islam receives training from an Iranian bomb maker. Hijinx ensue)
15. Allah in the Family (A devout young Muslim man marries into a family of Christian bigots)
16. I Dream of Jihad (Fantasy-comedy in which a beautiful 2000-year old genie helps her Taliban master kill infidels by blinking her eyes and wrinkling her nose)
17. My Favorite Martyr (A would-be Muslim martyr makes friends with a naïve CNN reporter)
18. The Beverly Hadjis (A poor Muslim man discovers oil on his family goat farm and moves his family to Beverly Hills)
19. Bosom Bombers (Two single Muslim men disguise themselves as filthy, hook-nosed Jews to live in the one apartment they can afford)
Abu Abbas and Achmed the goat cruise the Mediterranean on The Love Goat, Saturdays at 8/7 Central on The Travel Channel
20. The Love Goat (Abu Abbas stars as Captain Mahmoud al-Stubing, captain of the Achille Lauro cruise ship. Achmed the goat co-stars)
21. Decapitated Housewives (A comedy-drama about a group of burqa-wearing neighbors on Wisteria Lane in Kabul)
22. Sharia Law & Order (Stole a loaf of bread? Cut off their hands. Went outside without your burqa? That’ll be forty strokes with a cane. Suicide bomber? You get 72 virgins)
23. Late Night with Conan the Barbarian (The comedy musings of America’s top Muslim late night comic)
24. Mary Tyler Moorish (A young, single Muslim woman moves to the big city and goes to work in the al Jazeera news department)
25. Arrested Developer (The zany adventures of the sleazy guy who wants to build the Ground Zero Mosque)
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Don’t forget the old SNL skit, that would never air today, the Bel Arabs.
Listen to the story about a man named Abdul
Poor Bedouin trying to keep his family full
Then one day he was shooting at some Jews
Up from the ground comes a bubbling ooze
Saudi soda
Persian Perrier
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My Three Martyrs
In this show we would see, via flashback, the hilarious antics of a father trying to teach his 3 young sons to kill in the name of Allah.
The episode where the father accidentally cuts his own finger off while trying to show his sons how to behead someone should get an Emmy.
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If only your Will and Grace episode had been for real!! Couric’s premise is, naturally, completely wrong. Here’s a very unfunny stand-up guy who parlayed a bad show and a Jello ad into a career. After telling his fellow blacks how to turn their lives around we now have massive black illegitimacy; 16-35 black males either arrested, jailed, convicted; in prison or recidivists; a DemonRat created black welfare plantation of Medicaid, Medicare, and food-stamps; a matriarchal no-father black family; and a nation of black ‘utes’ who can’t pronounce a simple word like ‘ask’ and a massive HS drop-out rate. I suppose on the plus side he helped staff the NBA and the NFL plus thousands of college basketball team and football team flunkies. Nice job Cos! Everytime I hear Couric’s name I get a mental picture of the guy holding the side of his head and screaming ‘Not this Sh*t again!’
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Check your chronology, Doc. The problems you list were endemic in the urban black communities long before Cosby ever said anything. When he said what he said (which was mostly, if not totally, spot-on), he was ignored by the people who needed to hear it, and roundly criticised by the black/civil rights “leaders”
Also, funny or not aside, it was a stand-up career that was parlayed into a show, followed by Jell-O ads.
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Prioceless humor. Sadly based in reality.
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I want to paste in an insightful comment from the other thread on this subject, Katie Couric ends 2010 just as stupid as she began it, written by Pericat:
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Some of those were funny…
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Some? Only “some?” You’ve cut us to the quick, Kimmy.
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omg i am so sorry i just re-read that and that can be construed as mean. Some of them made me laugh more than others but they were all funny. I just laughed so hard at some that is what I meant.
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From the Muslem “Jed Clampett)
“Jeeeeeeehadie!”
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How about “Sunni and Sharia”?
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Lol- very clever
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“Friday Night Executions”
“Abu Graib Break”
“Akbar The Bounty Hunter”
“Gray’s Chopped Off Anatomy”
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Leave it to Believer – Little brother Thamir, “the believer”, and his older brother Walif, learn important life lessons like the importance of storing dynamite securely in the back seat of the car or it blows up on the way the local military recruitment office. Waqir, the knowing Dad, and Junah, the veiled loving mum, watch over these scamps
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Good Timers
J Jihad Evans makes bombs and timers and interacts with family.
Dyn-O-Mite!
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“Honey I killed the kids” – the humorous depiction of a fundamentalist father’s plans, chronically going awry, to honor-kill his Americanized daughters
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I was just wondering in shows (4) 3rd Irag from the Sun and (10) Mork & Mineret , there is a mention of an alien family and an alien culture . Are these legal aliens or illegal aliens ?
Further more , in show #10 Mork and Mineret , what’s going to happen when a hard of hearing extremist , thinks the title is “Pork and Pineret “. Can we safely assume that the possibility of a “Holy” war is upon us , for use of a forbidden term ?
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Linked with glee and an accompanying Photoshop at:
http://nosheepleshere.blogspot.com/2011/01/katie-couric-we-need-muslim-cosby-show.html
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Sponge Habib Square Pants?
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It helps to make light of a very real and serious problem, but just rmember; while most jokes and jests have an element of truth, these islamic asides have more truth to them than we a willing to admit. With the insanity that passes for leadership in DC, I sure hope we don’t have to scrape a few thousand of our neghbors up off the floor in some big mall or sports stadium and put their ushy gushy parts into bodybags.
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We already have a show up here in Canuckistan.
http://www.cbc.ca/littlemosque/
It’s about as funny as it sounds.
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Canuckistan. Now that’s funny. Be a pretty good name for one of those sitcoms, too.
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Burqa Junction.
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What a douche bag Couric is! Wonder how many Muslims live near her perky home in the Hamptons. Couric-AKA The Perky One gives news bimbos and airheads their bad name.
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Almost forgot-Desperate Hajj Wives!