Iraq's "Daily Show" fake news TV: "Hurry Up, He's Dead!"

My God, this sounds amazing. Anyone spotted a copy online? It's probably not as funny if you don't speak/read Arabic, but — still. Snip from NY Times story by Michael Luo:

Nearly every night here for the past month, Iraqis weary of the tumult around them have been turning on the television to watch a wacky-looking man with a giant Afro wig and star-shaped glasses deliver the grim news of the day.

In a recent episode, the host, Saad Khalifa, reported that Iraq's Ministry of Water and Sewage had decided to change its name to simply the Ministry of Sewage – because it had given up on the water part.

In another episode, he jubilantly declared that "Rums bin Feld" had announced American troops were leaving the country on 1/1, in other words, on Jan. 1. His face crumpled when he realized he had made a mistake. The troops were not actually departing on any specific date, he clarified, but instead leaving one by one. At that rate, it would take more than 600 years for them to be gone.

(…) The show's title appears initially as "The Government," but the Arabic words split in half to reveal the actual name, another crack at the country's plight.

Link. Image: Saad Khalifa, the "Jon Stewart" of "Hurry Up, He's Dead." Insane. (thanks, Adam Fields, Perry Metzger)

Reader comment: Bob Lee says,

He looks like Bootsy Collins! This clip from the Mighty Boosh brought it to my attention.