Stripping war vocabulary Kuwaiti-American comedian Saad Alessa has been among those turning geopolitics into satire as tensions in the region rise. His jokes often begin with the strange vocabulary of war itself. Words like “escalation”, he says, sound oddly bureaucratic, as if they belong in a boardroom rather than a battlefield. The humour works because audiences recognise the absurdity behind the language. Wars are rarely described in human terms anymore. They arrive wrapped in euphemisms. Comedy strips those away. Alessa also jokes about family chat groups: concerned uncles, conspiracy-theorist cousins, and the one relative who meticulously forwards updates from “credible...
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