Afghanistan Is Not Funny: the comedian transformed by the war on terror
Henry Naylor travelled to Afghanistan in 2003 to research his fringe farce Finding Bin Laden. His sobering new show takes stock of the country's fate since Was Henry Naylor's agent right when he warned the writer and comic, at the height of the "war on terror", that "Afghanistan is not funny"? To a certain brand of comedian, that kind of remark is always going to sound like a challenge. The darker the reality, after …