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Phantom of the Osama

Posted Aug 6th 2007 10:40AM by TMZ Staff

Jihad the MusicalHe's a killer terrorist, the most wanted fugitive in the world ... and the subject of a new musical extravaganza!? Get ready Broadway! Osama's headed for the Great White Way!

It's called "Jihad: The Musical" and it's already playing at the "Edinburgh Fringe Festival" -- because seriously, what's got more laughs than Islamic extremism? Some say it's in poor taste, but ... "You say Al Qaeda, I say Al Qaida."

And if lyrics like "I wanna be like Osama ... wear designer clothes beneath a robe ... I want to kill people round the globe," sound a bit familiar, there's a good reason why -- look no further than the play's swastastic inspiration, Mel Brooks' "The Producers." "Jihad" just hips it up with some camels, turbans, and a few bloody attacks on those wacky infidels.

If it's as unabashedly tasteless as "Springtime for Hitler," Jihad could be an explosive hit ... or a bomb!

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16. I think is a brilliant idea. To ridicule the terrorists. They love for the world to take them seriously, ok, so we don't....... We will show them as they really are, tacky, comic figures, out of touch with reality....

I will be in New York in November, I will love to see the play.-But of course, extra security please...We all know terrorists do not have any sense of humor!

Posted at 4:36PM on Aug 6th 2007 by COCO

17. Phantom..Is Right!

We should've FOUND..CAUGHT..TRIED & EXECUTED his ass..Already!.

Someone get the White House an "easy" button from Staples.

Buncha idiots!

Posted at 4:47AM on Aug 7th 2007 by UnImpressed

18. Hey Coco #14 - I hope you get to read this. Thank you for your comments as they are in direct line with mine. I think one of the best things we can do is humiliate any Islamic extremist as well as any Islamic follower who thinks jihad and 'death to America' is an ok ideal. I say bring it to NY - bring it. And before any of you out there think of yapping your mouths off at my comments hear this: I was just 19 when they put up those towers and hated every minute of it. I used to watch them - layer by layer go up and forever change the skyline of the downtown area. My college buds and I used to sit on the Brooklyn side eating White Castle hamburgers and wonder if they'd ever finish and if they'd ever be tall enough. No one was sure what they would be or how they would look - but you can be sure of one thing they were there to stay . And one day I got job in the city and the towers were right behind my building which was on Fulton and Broadway - 195 Broadway to be exact. Those towers that I watched go up - I also watched come down.

I now say bring on the show and pack it full of as many politically incorrect insults as you can. I hope to laugh my ass off if given the opportunity - long and hardy.

Posted at 10:56PM on Aug 6th 2007 by Sues

19. Very Tacky and Tasteless ! I find NOTHING amusing or funny about Al Quaida, the show should NOT go on. Only the "strange" will attend this play...........

Posted at 3:07AM on Aug 7th 2007 by Cricket

20. Gosh, some people never miss an opportunity to get sanctimonious! And they haven't even seen the show!! I have - it's touching, funny, bitingly satirical with catchy tunes and a great cast. See it and make your own mind up.

Posted at 10:18AM on Aug 10th 2007 by i'veactuallyseentheshow

21. This has ALREADY BEEN DONE! There was an hysterically funny parody musical called, "Tall Tales Of Osama," out a couple of years ago. It's at i-Tunes and CDBaby. It was pretty unique, as the point of the musical was a look at Osama from his friends and family that "knew him when." It's original music and lyrics, except for one of the funniest pieces on the record, which is from Osama's psychiatrist ("Shrinking Osama"), done to the tune of "A Modern Major General," and it is honestly the funniest politcal parody I ever heard. The best part, in this musical, Osama is blown up while he's singing about his invincibility. HA!

Posted at 11:02AM on Sep 28th 2007 by Angst

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