shakir: yeah, we can't. samantha: you can't? shakir: yeah, we can't. we can't go to the red lines.nt says, "it's okay to talk about this and that. okay, go talk about sex, religion, whatever." if you speak about it, people won't feel comfortable. so i'd rather--me as a comedian, career-wise, i'll stay away from that. shakir: this is the audience, now, you're all mixed. samantha: this theatre is another vision 2030 idea: bringing some "fun" to the kingdom. but when shakir started, he faced a massive conservative backlash. shakir: the most fearful thing, after death, is being on stage. shakir: they started, you know, correcting me, like, "you shouldn't talk about your mother, you shouldn't talk about your father. you should stop doing this, you look ugly." you know, you know, "the bullying." shakir: [speaking in arabic] samantha: two thirds of saudi's population is under the age of 30. many are unsure what the new rules are. [singing call to prayer] samantha: calls to prayer have echoed through the streets of jeddah for 1,400 years, since the time of muhammad. it's the gateway to mec