Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

德克萨斯-巴勒斯坦裔喜剧演员莫·阿美尔

Fresh Air

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2025-03-15

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Amer's Netflix comedy series about his life, Mo, is now in its second season. His family is Palestinian, and fled the first Gulf War, so Amer grew up in Houston from age nine. "Palestinian culture is a folksy farmer kind of mentality and life," Amer says. "And when I came to Texas, one of the things that was really attractive to me was the country music, the folksy music, the storytelling tradition of that." Amer spoke with Dave Davies in 2022 when his series debuted. Also, Justin Chang reviews Black Bag, a new thriller from Steven Soderbergh. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • Season two of the comedy series Mo is now available on Netflix.

  • It's based on the life of Mo Amer,

  • a comedian of Palestinian descent who grew up in Kuwait and Houston and is fluent in Arabic,

  • Spanish and English.

  • As the first season ended,

  • Mo was trying to stop the theft of his family's olive trees

  • from a Texas farm when he ended up trapped in the thieves truck

  • and transported to Mexico.

  • As season two opens, he's stuck in Mexico City because he's undocumented.