"Ugly Comedy" .. How did the Egyptians move from Adel Imam to Adel Shakal

A wise village boy gathers his friends to recite a joke: “Oh children, do you know that the village doctor is hanging one of his patients at the dispensary’s door?” This doctor in the boy’s joke follows a common approach from the shopkeepers who hang models of their goods at the doors of their stores. With this, the child made friends laugh by misplacing things, surprising the mind and creating the blink that ultimately results in laughter.

But laughter in itself is not as simple as that which makes it a concept (Concept) can be analyzed and its causes and components easily found by a philosopher or thinker, but rather a complex process that has occupied philosophers and thinkers, from Aristotle to the present day. Some of these philosophers, for example, defined man as a "laughing animal", and this definition does not seem strange, because man knew sadness and laughter before he developed language. Sadness may cause a person to feel that the world is greater than him and from his desires and that he is unable to adapt it and its opposite; to laugh and feel that the world is smaller than you even if it is in fact greater than you and that you are able to ridicule and reduce what you cannot subjugate. Sadness is imposed on you by the world and laughter is imposed on you by the world, sadness is the recognition of the laws of the world, and laughter is the will of man against the laws of the world. (1) (2) (3)

In compliance with the principle of putting things out of place, out of humor, we used the search engine "Youtube Egypt" to write "Adel" and wait for the nominations, and we found that the leader of the comedy now is not Adel Imam but rather "fair form", and some went for more than that By using the description to launch it, it becomes "leadership" rather than "leader." But do not be alarmed if you are a fan of leadership, because we are not willing to endure your anger, which may compel us to "ride a six-diameter unless you follow" - a phrase used by Adel Shakal - and we are not going to cry over the ruins, and we learn about public taste and talk about the decline of morals and principles, so all Those "crying", as some describe them, did not threaten comedy ever, because comedy is always a color of promiscuity, which appeared in an early stage of human life raised on the vapors of sex and laughter and fun and the consequences of death, the most abstract human facts are sex and death, And from the womb of these two facts, the comedy was born to make fun of every shortage There is a need here for meanings such as "modesty, dignity and politeness" in the comedy, because its first task, as the late playwright "Bakr Al Sharqawi" sees, is to drop these fake masks from the human face and body. (3)

The momentum around the personality of the Alexandrian fan "Adel Shakkal" exceeded millions of interactions and posts in Egypt in particular, and a large number of satirical comic pages, while his personal accounts on social networking sites exceeded a million followers, and when trying to find out the material provided by Adel Shakkal and Obama of Egypt and others, the Ultimately, what they offer is nothing but their diaries, some jokes, satirical videos and their comments on public opinion issues, in addition to their quarrels with each other or their quarrels with followers who put angry faces or sarcastic comments, and many, many, many contradictions And the wrong use of logic, and those ideas that bear the primary motives of man in their popular language and ideas that some consider superficial to the point of comedy, pasted with profanity or severe market words loaded with causes and exits of the wrong letters, which is the mixture that their fans see as a kind of lightness. (4)

"I speak to Hisham Ramez, and I do not work now."

(Artist Alaa Morsi)

We know that you might hesitate if we asked you about the most important works of the artist "Alaa Morsi", and that the first thing that may come to your mind is the famous bank call that was leaked by the employee of one of the banks that the artist "Alaa Morsi" deals with during his revolution and the severe nervousness that he was exposed during The call is directed at the insults and profanity of the bank employee who caused his request to be delayed and his failure to complete some papers related to the loan that the first wants to complete, the call that alone has become heavier than its entire technical history, whether in terms of the number of listeners or in terms of fame, because it was honest to the point of being " 'Awrah, "bold to the point of manifestation, outside Ordinary, and contrary to public morals, and it seems that this is a catalog of laughter, which primarily depends on highlighting the shortage of human, whether it is for a very meaningful Vncefh art, or for the laughter to the same no more. (5)

From Plato's Republic to the Hante Canti ... Convert

German philosopher Kant sees laughter as a form of sudden fatigue to which the mind suffers as a result of being exposed to one of the contradictions, so the body is prompted to respond to this fatigue by chuckling, and philosophy throughout history has presented many theories of laughter, the most important of which is, for example, the "theory of superiority or control" which falls Underneath theories of many philosophers such as Plato, Hobbes and Bergson, this theory states that laughter is the result of a feeling of physical or mental superiority that a laughter feels towards others less than him, or towards himself in past periods when he was more vulnerable than he is now. (6)

And this theory seems clear if we drop it on all those scenes that made us laugh in our childhood, starting from the silent cinema and Charlie Chaplin whenever he fell into trouble or poured the can of milk on his pants so he appeared in a stupid appearance, so what raises laughter when Plato lies in the shortcomings and defects that we see afflict Others are the result of their ignorance of the truth of themselves, and hence the entertainment arises by wishing harm to those who boast of their imperfections that they do not realize even though we are aware of them and believe that we do not have at least at the present time, therefore sympathy or emotion is the opposite feeling of laughter, sympathy may deprive you of sympathy. To laugh at Someone or something, or allows you to those self-distance between you and your friends and your neighbors laugh at the stupidity, because you did not fall in this predicament instead of them. (7)

Laughing does not belong to these feelings, but it arises as a result of many other reasons, such as a contradiction in meaning and the use of anagrams or the repetition of certain verbal forms in a way that raises laughter, such as one of them mocking the other: "This is your guidance, and from your mother we rest" - a phrase used by fair form -, and Plato saw that laughter is capable of subverting society and spreading extremism in the behavior of individuals, because laughter is devoid of taking into account the feelings of others, and in many cases it is based on irony, and Plato sees that irony is like a court of law that issues judgment and applies the punishment at the same time, where You can eliminate the seriousness of your opponents by mocking them, Or eliminate their irony through seriousness, but irony remains the most powerful weapon with which you can defeat the most logical and relevant ideas. (8)

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The relationship between the suppression of freedoms and the corruption of public taste

When society enjoys a general climate that guarantees freedom of opinion and expression, art thrives under this freedom, tastes differ and the arts are varied, and when comedy meets man at the edge of the rules, it is broken, and laughter arises at this moment, and in light of a stifled political climate and a completely closed public area, it is very difficult A comedy that actually produces or discusses important issues is produced. Society and art in Egypt are now deprived of liberty, but people still want to make fun and laugh to breathe what is in its chest, and no longer is there in front of the Egyptian society only another group of personalities who have found what they lack in the comedy provided by the state in terms of appearance, words and content - even And if it is not of value - it is sufficient for them that Egyptian Egyptian Obama bring them out to discuss a thorny sexual issue in a dialogue with another personality called "Mohamed China", shouting at one point: "And no, Mohamed, China, are you" hobbed "at night ?! It is not in the time of "calving" we are in the time of feeling, or his personal appeals to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi D Played him, "O Abdul Fattah O Soso." The laws of artistic censorship and the protection of public taste became a restriction on artists and thinkers, as the Egyptians found through their virtual world another comedy of their own that does not matter if it presents value, but it is at least honest and not burdened with the choice of words and the distance from thorny politics. (9)

Comedy at the Edge of Morals: How Does a Man Laugh at Others ’Trauma?

Ricky Gervais, the British comedian and presenter, wrote a tweet saying that the phrase "this subject should not be joking about it" is no less ridiculous except than the phrase "this subject should not be talked about", describing the humor as being like freedom that cannot be capped A woman replied to him in a tweet asking him, "Can you laugh at something like rape?", And Gervais replied, "Depending on the joke." In one of his comedies, Gervais justifies himself that rape is not a laughing matter, but you may be able to write a good joke about tragic things.

Many comic makers tend to this opinion, and this is not the only example. The Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef had come out in his program "The Program" on the Egyptian people with a satirical paragraph in which he dealt with the site of breaking up the sit-in of Rabaa El-Adawiya after the fourteenth of August with laughing and singing. To this extent, a person is able to laugh at the trauma of others, their scandals, their nakedness, or from his own slips, and for these reasons, Plato took his position on laughter, preventing it in his republic and warning him as a mixed feeling of pleasure and pain that causes gloating, and an emotional response to human feelings. Associated with hatred and hatred. (10)

But whether laughter is a brutal or brutal affusion of descending content, a person needs it, and no matter how the laws that try to impose custodianship on what a person laughs at, he will circumvent behind those laws hitting the wall, until a real comedy emerges that elevates his taste and helps to extract him from His sad reality. We have resented the laws of the world that were imposed on him starting from his birth, his circumstances, and the life that he did not choose and ending with death. And comedy in the first place is ridiculous of the laws of human destiny or of the issue of human existence in itself, and man will continue to resist those costs and the laws that guarantee his sorrows, because the connection of man to laughter is an essential link that clashes with his desires to be freed from his tragedies, so tragedy and comedy are created Let the story of a person remain with his past, present and society in which he lives, either a sad story or a funny story.