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In Syria, Ramadan Without Comedy

Abdullah – Syria

For long time, the Arab audience used to watch Syrian comedy. "Ghawwar", "Umm Kamel", "Abu Sayyah" and "Gamil And Hana". This comedy series start disappearing gradually. This makes the Arab audience wonders where did new series like "Mirrors" and "Spotlight" go?

Syrian comedy started with "Pearl necklace", a sketch wrote by Dreid Laham and Nihad Kollay and directed by Nizar Shraby. It was shown in the first anniversary of starting television transmission in Syria. Later, a flow of comedy works were introduced. These works cause laugh till now, as they introduced popular characters with all their manifestations, dilemmas and human faults.

Although Syrian comedy has developed through the years, comedy had the same viewpoint as a "light" project either in budget or the ease of marketing and distribution with the presence of Arab space channels , this was because it handled humanitarian cases and simple funny social problems touching the Arab citizen in a way or another despite the privacy of every country.

As the TV series progressed in general , it was an urging thing to develop its forms from social to historical to comedy .,, but with the increase of works produced annually , we see a decrease in comedy series with an apparent change in its forms , which calls the question : did the Syrian comedy get to the coma status ? and why? does that have to do in anything with the script or moderation , or is it production and marketing ? or does the channels put strict rules .. or could it be the Syrian personality?

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