{"id":7233,"date":"2026-06-12T16:35:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/why-mo-amer-jokes-to-survive\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:35:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:35:30","slug":"why-mo-amer-jokes-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/why-mo-amer-jokes-to-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mo Amer jokes to survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"root\"><main id=\"main-content-area\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Main content area\"><\/p>\n<div class>\n<header><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/the-take-2\/\"><span>The Take<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/header>\n<p>He\u2019s become one of the most prominent Palestinian voices in comedy, but can Mo Amer laugh through this moment?<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Palestinian-American comedian Mo Amer has spent years using humor to face pain, break silence, and speak for a people under fire. In a moment of deep loss, he turns to the stage again. What can comedy still cut through?<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a story from the archives. This originally aired on November, 7 2025. None of the dates, titles or other references from that time have been changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In this episode:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mo Amer (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realmoamer\">@realmoamer<\/a>), Comedian, Actor &#038; Writer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Episode credits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This episode was updated by Noor Wazwaz. The original production team was Melanie Marich, Sonia Bhagat, Marcos Bartolom\u00e9 and Tamara Khandaker, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Amy Walters, Haleema Shah, Sar\u00ed el-Khalili, Farhan Rafid, Fatima Shafiq, and our host, Malika Bilal. It was edited by Kylene Kiang.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is the Take\u2019s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera\u2019s head of audio.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Connect with us:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>@AJEPodcasts on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEPodcasts\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ajepodcasts\/\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJEPodcasts\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLzGHKb8i9vTwjZkiFu6LhzsLUKFkYO60I\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Take He\u2019s become one of the most prominent Palestinian voices in comedy, but can Mo Amer laugh through this moment? Palestinian-American comedian Mo Amer has spent years using humor to face pain, break silence, and speak for a people under fire. In a moment of deep loss, he turns to the stage again. What &#8230; <a title=\"Why Mo Amer jokes to survive\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/why-mo-amer-jokes-to-survive\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why Mo Amer jokes to survive\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}