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Interview with comedian Fatlum Rexhepi

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Fatlum Rexhepi is a stand-up Comedian, actor, and human rights activist. To be more specific he is the first comic from Kosovo to perform in English. The founder of The Jewslim Show, a stand-up comedy show in Vienna and the founder of the Comic Union and Entertainment agency based in Kosovo. He lives in Vienna, Austria but originally he is from Kosovo. His comedy relies on self-jokes, race, religion, life etc. We have conducted an interview with him. As a stand-up Comedian and actor, where do you normally get your inspirations for your comedy? I get my inspirations from daily events. I grew up in a rebuilding country after the war in Kosovo, and everything you did during that time was a challenge. In a third world country, there's always enough to talk about, you just have to find the funny way of saying things. We laugh through pain, so I decided to tell my story in a funny way. I started out talking about my country but comedy is something that gives you space to...