We talked to Mo Amer about the power of standup at the Red Sea International Film Festival.
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00:00Storytelling is spectacular. Stand-up, that's why I love stand-up so much, is the ability to speak truth and the ability to have like
00:08basically a therapeutic experience with your audience, where you get to share your
00:12observations, you get to share what's on your heart and mind and spirit, and it could be just silly and funny.
00:18It could go either way, but that's an ancient thing, right?
00:21They had jokers to the kings way in the past, but stand-up is just a quintessentially American art form that I learned and picked up.
00:28It's one of the indigenous American art forms. It's jazz, hip-hop and stand-up.
00:32So to have found stand-up comedy has been really, really like a saving grace for me.