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in those schools. schools can be repaired, thousands of warners finding past the coffin of queen elizabeth the 2nd, which is lying in state in westminster hall in central london. a q is stretching nearly 8 kilometers along the river thames as people wait to pay their respects. there's the headlines coming up next to the stream talks to palestinian american comedian mo, ma'am, i'm waiting for you straight off to that. thanks for watching. ah, [000:00:00;00] it oh

ah, welcome to the stream. i'm at savvy dean. today i'm delighted to be talking to mom, madame, at a palestinian american comedian, who stars in the new head series mo, on netflix. now, i know those of you who seen it. i have a lot of questions for mo, yourselves. so here is your chance to ask him, share them with us on youtube. ah, the new head comedy show is inspired by some of the challenges and traumas that mo, faced in his own life. he also lost his father at a young age was forced to flee to the u. s. from kuwait during the 1st gulf war and navigated the u. s. immigration system as a refugee. the show is a critical success to say the least making waves for portraying and ordinary palestinian american family. and in doing so, humanizing them something that's never really been done before on tv. check out

this trailer. i saw the lego with no, no, with your shoes on what come on it with kato, rather let me show you. so with that crap selling merge is the only thing i could do without papers to support my family. actual emotion. my last 4 of my last coin, one little practical p r d g o d m to go to church, told me something. what does that tend to be though? please explain what they're by that because bit send a lot of stuff is a huge problem. there were a couple hours away, not past 9, texas israel many is always filmed to real branding issue. please welcome to the show from houston, texas mohammed, co creator and star mo, mo,

thanks so much for being with us. i don't think i've ever said most so many times in my life more more money, more problems just like palestine on the show. man, it's so great to have you with us. thank you for having me. really a pleasure to be on. i have to ask you just from, from, from the get go, i want to give you an opportunity for our audience who may be living under a rock. they've never heard of the show. they don't know you what this show really about to me. it was clear, it's a labor of love to say the very least. what's it about to you? sure. the shows about belonging. it's about what a result of statements miss a, you know, people are similar in america, fish out of water or somebody who's struggling, trying to fit in and take care of their family. well, so losing themselves spiritually along the way. i mean, it's very complex. there's so many layers to it is origin story is done package as well the, you know, the mother story, the, my story, my brothers, my sisters,

my father's, there's so much to talk about generational displacement. it's a lot, it's, it seems like it's an immigrant shell, but it really is for everyone. anyone who has experience struggle that is going on life living paycheck to paycheck, trying to take care of their families, trying to live up to their expectation, their families, expectations along the way, sacrificing law, including their spiritual wellness, the mental health, their actual health and physical health so it's the show is very complex and it is a comedy, you know, you start describing michelle like, funny like get it is going to be very funny. there's also going to be very, very serious attacks, very, very real, very ra, very authentic. and i think, you know, the comedy head harder because, you know, the tragedy is so strong and i don't want to get bogged down in the tragedy. but something that you said, you know, there's about a real family with real problem that have been displaced over generations. but in a lot of ways, for as much as it's about palestine, it's also about houston,

it felt in some ways, like houston this place that you were raised essentially, you know, the big character and in the series was that intentional? absolutely. it was intentionally completely by design, houston is the most diverse city in america, the elite, the neighborhood, the suburb of houston that we feel most disuse in is any language is spoken in that alone. there's no zoning and use and so everybody's literally next to each other. you'll have a nice restaurant next for african foods by next to mexican church, next to a lot of bakery like it's is that kind of town and suburbs. so in such a big export are travis scott, robert glass for i mean before that, but be paul. well, i can keep going. real long, toby, who's blowing up right now, my jeering back, but narrative sick come filmed out of here. so it was, it was a, you know, a no brainer and a deal breaker. we couldn't do it. and that was so beautiful, you know,

and i think that's, that, that's what makes it so palpable to me. i want to share with you a video that was sent to us by offend someone who has a lot to say about what you've accomplished with the series. take a listen. thank you so much for representing palestinian culture in the way that you did other than something that's always seen as just struggle and hard break. i think people got to see us for who we really can be, which is just like everybody else. and i think it's a branding issue, was the most genius, comedic line to summarize everything that we go through as palestinians in our struggle. but honestly, when the credits rolled at the end and every name was arab, palestinian was just there to be seen. i had never felt more proud, especially at a time when i'm going into the film industry, i'm going into the comedy industry and it's people like you,

it's people like it. people that cast and crew that made this show come to life. how does it make you feel? hearing the things i know grace isn't the only one thing you i mean yeah. how do you feel? i've chose, man, i chose you know, when i 1st started stand up as a teenage kid in the mid ninety's. yeah, yeah. i was me in the south out as a mom and in texas you believe yanna arkansas or new mexico. what have you so it felt really lonely and to see the reception 1st of all across the board to be so well received and. and then it's inspiring people in certain way odyssey is going to take years to truly see the impact and to really like soak it in completely. it does moment right now i'm just looking around like, is this real like? it's pretty, it's really so real and you have to pinch yourself, but i couldn't be more proud. and that's what i did when i was creating the show

and building it out and casting michelle and writing it out. every part of it, there's not one second of the series that is not with purpose. like every part of it was, was well thought out. i mean, the only one of the only credits in the house to me a mom. she's like the peter bread is not steaming. ok, well, if that's the only thing i miss, i'm so grateful for that. but it's, it's huge. it's absolutely huge. and i just don't know what to say, i'm overwhelmed by it. it makes me emotional to see that because i know what it feels like to get a loan up there and not feel seen. and it's just such a privilege that i, that i get to bring it to everyone. and then that's what, that's really the bow, right? it's about that search for belonging, that not only wanting to be seen, but seen in the true sense of that word. you know, in your entirety and your complexity, i think, you know, a lot of people are sending comments on youtube. but what before i get to them, i want to just ask you, i mean, you know, the trail palestinians in this is, is,

at least to me, seems deliberately not focused on the tragedy. something that i think too often with all the misrepresentation, whether in the news or media is what's associated with that. was that deliberate? and why was that important? if it was you know, it was important to focus on the characters in the story. so the story is really grounded in my dna and in my experience of coming years in the sy lee, where do you get my citizenship for 20 years and what was that like? and i think that too many times you'll see something that's really tragedy based, or, you know, it's like a family floating to another. can country, are they going to make this is really focused on the characters and what they go through. and i think it makes it way more reliable. and it's yes, it's like, it's like food, but it's the differences. google is for as buyers isn't. see,

this is for us for everyone. you know, like it has to be completely related. boy, the way to do that is to focus on the characters, to focus on the story and make sure that you give it time and allow it that breathing room so we can be what it is like it it's, it's a story about the longing and feeling like you're less than and, and you want to be equal to the person next to you. so it's just really important. just keep calling it on the characters from episode to episode and digging deeper and deeper into each person. yeah. and we do get to go. so deep, even though it's still season one and my sense is that there's a promise of a lot more in depth to come with each character and the complexity of this world that you're and i do. yeah, go ahead what you're going to say, what? yeah, i want to add something that just killed because i was, i haven't lost it. i didn't want to make it a hyper political show as well. right? so many cases you, you get lost in that, and politics are deeply personal people and relate ability is everything. right?

and, and so i love the love the year adver character where you have a passion christian and you have which i was also forgotten saying, right? which is really upsetting, really, that there's positive christians that exist and that's completely lost in the conversation. and also like these relationships exist to where they can be deeply passionate about their views, argumentative and just like going at each other. but at the same time, when the waiter comes over, you want something to drink, he's concerned it would you like sugar with your coffee or not. so to show that compassion and that relationship is also really important, just because you have heated conversation. doesn't mean you can't be friends, right? and historically, my mother's told me so many stories and my grandfather having friends with people across the board, both christian and jewish. and, and that, that was really important to me as well. that going to see, and this is a story about unification, it's not something that is intended to divide us. this is the opposite. i've had enough of this division, quite frankly. i know a lot of people feel the same. so i just wasn't going to have that series as well.

no. and i think in such polarized times, you know, coming out of the black, the black live matter movement and everything that's happened last few years in the us contact with president trump. it really feels like it's not a coincidence that maybe it is, but that this show is coming out at the time, you know, really cemented in black culture in houston and cemented in the solidarity that we've seen the last couple of years in palestine. i, you know, i don't think things are necessarily coincidences, but for our audience, who might be like, what are these 2 guys talking about? let's give them a little clip about your trail of state. let's, let's say it's 2nd generation state with me take a take a look stella this is though, you know, generational and there's so many different layers to immigration and different ways to get your citizenship. different paths to that, whether it be through marriage, go to the asylum process. and that was part of the story that i wanted to tell which is what antic to my experience. and there's much more to tell 22 years of

been telling ourselves everything's going to be fine. well, it's never going to happen. pay you a think me and your dad. so about dad feeling saudi bird. oh it says we gaddy on. it is, oh we on carry on. i mean the kind of a theme, a message in the show that, that really him, me, when i saw them moment for so many reasons i want to ask you off the back of that. i mean, the depiction of the u. s. immigration system, you make a lot of social commentary in this, but the u. s. immigration system, i, it says it says hilarious as it is heart wrenching. i'm curious. i how was that borne from your own lonely experience, navigating that? well, i mean, the ending of episode 7 is exactly what happened to us. there's a lot of it, there was in the series, you'll see it's copy paste of experience. and of course, is fictionalized along the way, but it's a really complex one where people think, did you come migrate to america? here we go. the sy leaves or refugees are coming and you know,

this is become us citizens overnight. does not out at 6 years to get a hearing, in some cases even more. and then when the time you get a grant to asylum, it's 65 years to get your green card. and it takes you a little 5 years before you can file your citizenship. so you can imagine. so you looking at minimum 10 plus years right before you come us. meanwhile, you're working. you are contributing or you're paying your taxes, but you don't have any rights like everyone else does. it puts you in a really tough situation where almost forces you to do things under the table for you to do illegal things you don't want to do. and i think that's overall, the biggest deep i have a system that's going to move too slow, but it puts people in really bad situations where they're forced to do the legal things potentially, which goes against their nature, goes against a moral character, goes against how they're raised or the system is set up in a way to where it made it makes it easy to, to submit to those things. and you know,

i don't want to keep kind of hammering the point, but for as much as this is a palestinian story, it's a story about immigration, it's an american story. you know, it's, it's so many different things on and what i think was so compelling and effective for a group of people that have been marginalized in the media and in the mainstream. especially in hollywood. you kind of made it seem like the palestinian narrative was kind of part and parcel or like in tandem with other realities in the american experience, whether brown or black working class people. do you attribute that to a success in the show? is that just naturally who you are? was it intentional? was there a lot of strategy in how to, how to present this story? it is really natural, july and, and it's not something that was calculated. it's just how i live my life. my friend group is a well rounded mixed group of individuals, and it was just easy to take that away. i mean, like i said,

you leave in houston being one of the most diverse cities in america, in 80 languages, spoke alone, an alias. that's how i grew up and how i was raised. and i think that anytime that people think of a particular experience, it's just like caught mental lives to that ethnic group, which is wrong. it's universal. everyone goes through the same issues and to, to, to just put it in a bucket. i don't think it's fair. it's also not accurate. and if i found something in a lease where it was just arabs, that's also not accurate, right? you know, that's not how it works. like you walk into a particular business that's owned by arabs. i guarantee you they speak spanish. speaking of the language that they communicate with their community. it's very much that way. and i remember those that i worked for that when i was a teenager, that you know, had a ledger for people that couldn't afford certain things. it became a community. so you come in and take care of and get whatever you need. and god bless no problem. like you're just, it was that way and still that way to this day, you know, we have

a lot of people on youtube asking questions and making comments. so many people reacting positively not just to the trailer, but to the show motor a thing have you experienced writers block and how do you move past it? i mean, i can imagine you've spent what a decade writing this. he wrote the flashback in episode 7. in december, somewhere, and sometime in 2014, i think was like early december 2014. so it's been a while. it's a long time. but yeah, of course the experience was black and it's not about for me the right is why i came from, you know, the emotionality, like where, where did, what does this fit? where does that go? and it wasn't about like a shortage of content because there was a lot of story to package. so how you parse it out for it to be a well balanced season one. so you feel connected and we gave every character and in piece of draw more common time to breathe as the really hardest part of the whole thing. and if you're going through, it seems like whenever you do something so so big, you know,

you're going to be challenged personally with something deeply emotional. and that to me a lot and it was great challenges. i'm grateful for them better for them. they just kind of work through it, you know, and i have like an episode 3 where my friends and trying to tell me i need therapy . i highly recommended we recommend you, you spell your goods out to someone that can help you navigate this crazy. it's just incredible hearing you kind of talk about that process because i rarely have seen a show that is lead say new or innovative in its structure. what it's about that has been so well received. i mean, what is that 100 percent? i have a right here on rotten tomatoes, 100 percent. the critics ratings. i mean, i've seen it covered everywhere. i don't know. i don't know what i don't want to overstate it. but you know, is this something you would have thought of when you were doing stand up that

transition from stand up to now that theory is, i mean was that always when you were a kid in the back, your mind like this? this feels like a common nation that could really be transformative for your career, but also for, for storytelling and palestinians. now it was constantly on my mind. stand up is my 1st love. i have to shows tonight like i'm, that's going to be them for me for storytelling in general. that's why so love with stand up. now translating that to film or television is a completely different animal, but they're all related. and how you tell the story, how you visualize it and you put that up cinematically and how you want to display that to the world. but yeah, it's always been there it's, it's something that's a deep passion of mine. and i was never like as far as like the 100 percent run tomatoes in the audience score, 90 percentile. it's it's,

i don't know what to say. i'm just so thrilled. i'm so happy and also like hard work does pay off. right. and it's something that my friend told me that you know, chappelle is when he's me about this because he was like, you work so hard as i saw you when you haven't stop a left at all on the field, you have to trust the work. and once he told me that it really put me at ease, i'm like, yeah, there's literally not one second in each episode that i took for granted. and so you have to trust a work at some point. i think people who are most nervous usually have not done all that. they could do that. i didn't feel that way and i'm just bless, received. that doesn't mean like it was going to receive what i definitely felt calm. like i did everything i could like. i don't know how much i could have done, and i'm just blessed at such a great team around me that helping this to life and more, you know, you've inspired so many people so many storytellers. i have people stopping me being like could you tell me as if i like have a feed out to you,

but it's incredible. it's incredible to me that that's happened and i wonder, has this at all shifted for you? what it means to be successful? you, you've had so much success in so many different ways that feels like a new realm. what is success mean to? is it that 100 percent certified fresh? so it's a great bonus. it's a great bonus to for that. i'm not going to pretend like it's not in a world that we live it, but to me the success is when my mom is getting what have messages of the show and they don't know. she's my mother. you know, that is that when people are to me, that's like a foreigner. success is like when your mom is getting inundated with what's that messages? i'm sorry. it's really, it's really a beautiful thing when people are ready, when i got a video of people chanting my name in the streets when don was performing in, i forgot what city they were and i think i don't know what to do is getting past. i

was just, i'm changing my name, it just like people where i meet them and they're just like in like emotional about how they feel about the show and their connection to me. that is like true success . that to me is, is everything to have that that went to a fight, the ortiz ortiz, and the, and the respite. and he's, a friend invited me to the match. and i was the 1st time i went outside. i was kind of like having some apps to shows, feeling anxious. it was my 1st public appearance and yeah, and make connell's walking up to me like one of those mo you want, i was like, this is incredible. this is a different thing. yeah. it's we struck a nerve that where people feel seen where their stories are being told in the vehicle just happens to be a palestinian family named man. i get deeply emotional. think about it is crazy now and i know it's

a beautiful thing and it's not lost on anybody i think who is understanding of the social fabric of the u. s. in this moment, after the last few years that are getting political about it, it's, i know you're all about emotions you, you're all about the jokes. but if you look at the comedy and your theory is it all comes down to feelings and emotions. that's what so beautiful. we have a comment from a reason mccarty. it's a video common take a listen to what she said. pillars on recently supported a study by us the annenberg inclusion initiative, which showed that muslims are most likely to be seen on screen as victims are perpetrators of balance. meaning that we're really under represented and comedy, even though we're hilarious to things that i love about what most show does is not shy away from the incredibly important to address systemic issues that muslims and arabs face every day in the united states. while still acknowledging that we as margin life people deserve for body to that, our laughter and our love and our humanity is what allows us to survive and thrive

under really difficult situations, surviving in thriving, well as someone who is driving a lot of people asking me ask him about season to is it happening and what are you excited about quickly? well, i'm moving confidently like you. well, i have not gotten confirmation yet, but waiting on the waiting on the news, but yeah, i'm already building it out of my mind. and that's so much more story. tell them excited. incredible. and just quickly, before we wrap, black adam, how are you feeling about that? i mean, i forget that i'm going to super here movie with the right. you're in, feel free. sure, a movie with the rock. the amazing is incredible. whatever amazing experience i work with him and the entire cast is phenomenal. pierce brosnan, my 0. what are what, what a crazy time. what a blessing my taking for granted. and it's a changeable thing. and by the way, if everybody is wondering yes i'm visiting my mother. this is, this is classic,

i'm mama painting in the background. i want to thank you for joining us on this show. i want to thank you also for inspiring so. so many people with your authentic storytelling and you know, keep, keep it up and thanks for joining us. for those of you at home, this is our show for today. join us next time. ah, ah and it's a was phillip lesson planner, but for the popularity chasing india celebrities, it's

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