Yukking It Up in Qatar In this Sunday's magazine, I have an article about Stand Up Comedy Qatar, a group of amateur comedians that emerged in the wake of the Arab Spring. They tell jokes about traffic, KFC and suicide bombers. And sometimes despots, too. The trick, and it's not a simple one, is knowing what or who is permissible to skewer. Hosni Mubarak, the fallen Egyptian despot, is O.K. So is the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi. Of course, just because you can make fun of someone doesn't mean you can make people laugh. A brief despot-themed sampling of jokes that the S.U.C.Q. comedians like to tell: Hosni Mubarak is really old. You know how old he is? He's as old as the pyramids. Libyans are the most fashionable people in the Middle East. But Gaddafi is the worst dresser in the world. That's why the Libyans revolted against him - because he's unfashionable! So, Saddam Hussein is dead . . . And, as a bonus, one nondictator joke. When I asked my teacher how many kids he had, he told me he had two daughters - both girls!