During a recent appearance on the Triggernometry podcast, comedian Mark Normand turned his attention to Iran and the relative absence of public protests surrounding the country’s internal conflicts.
The conversation began when the hosts brought up the leadership situation in Iran. Normand responded with a blunt observation about the country’s ruling structure.
“The Ayatollah, it feels like they just pull a lever and another guy slides in who looks exactly like the last one,” he said. He then sarcastically said, “Yeah, there’s no diversity.”
When Normand made the comment about Iranian leadership, host Francis Foster stated, “I know. And I think that’s why they’re losing the war because it’s not their strength.”
Host Konstantin Kisin followed up, saying, “Diversity is our strength and they just don’t have enough. They need some trans sh**ters in there. They know how to fi*ht.”
Normand then delivered a backhanded compliment about the ideological commitment.
“You got to hand it to them because they’re really committed to the Allah thing,” Normand said. “They keep saying Allah will protect me and then they blow up. Like, imagine you’re banging a h*oker with no condom and you’re like, ‘Allah’s got me.’ The balls that takes. They really believe it.”
Normand then shifted the conversation to what he said genuinely puzzled him: the apparent absence of widespread protest over violence in Iran.
“No protest about it. Strange,” he said. “You don’t see any protest about Iran k*lling each other. Where’s all the protest? Where’s the colleges?”
One of the hosts acknowledged the point, suggesting that even people on the political left seemed reluctant to engage with the issue. “You see the occasional one, but even the lefties are like, ‘Dude, these guys are crazy. I’m not going to,'” host Foster said.
Normand offered his own theory for why that might be. “I thought it was a brown on brown thing,” he said.
When asked to clarify what he meant, he elaborated further, drawing a comparison to violence statistics in the United States.
“Well, if it’s brown on brown, nobody knows what side to take,” Normand said. “It’s kind of like… statistically, a lot of black people shoot each other in America, but no one ever talks about those lives matter, you know? So, you’re like… thought we cared about the lives.”
