Egyptians seem to like “Candid Camera” shows with some dubious ideas. I remember seeing clips from such a show a quarter century ago where someone would walk up to a random person on the street, drop a briefcase next to them and run away. The clear implication was that the briefcase was a bomb, and the random person would freak out to howls of studio audience canned laughter.
A recent “candid camera” show plays a little prank on what are apparently Egyptian celebrities… actors, comedians, etc. The prank: the celebrity thinks he’s being interviewed by a German TV crew, but at some point it slips out that the crew is actually Israeli. Hilarity ensues. If, that is, you define “hilarity” as “rage and violence, including beating the tar out of a woman.”
And at the end of each segment, when the celebrity is informed that it’s actually an Egyptian “candid camera” crew, everyone has a good laugh and they talk about how wonderfully patriotic the celebrity is for trying to kill Jews on sight.
Gah.
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