The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour? It's true! The Washington Post reports on four comedians of Middle Eastern descent who are taking their show on the road to demonstrate that a) suicide bomber jokes can be funny and b) not all Muslims are terrorists.

Some are comedians.

At first, the group was concerned about making George Bush jokes.

But after one show in San Diego in 2004, a group of Navy pilots approached him and told him: "We're fighting the war to preserve the right to criticize the people in power. You have to do it. That's real comedy."

By the time the Axis tour got going in earnest in 2006, there was no holding back. In fact, the comics say, the anti-Bush material goes over about as well with American audiences as it did with Arab audiences during the group's tour last fall of Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Dubai. "He's united the world in laughter," Obeidallah says.

The tears of a clown kind of thing, right?

  ¶ 8:38 AM