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animators and comedy writers, born in 1988. The two met during a high school film production in 2006. Since then, the two have been producing web sketches (both live-action and animated) in
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terrorist who wants them to follow in his footsteps, while all they want to do is play video games and surf the internet. The episodes will often feature Yasser sending them on a
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describes the series as depicting "young Arabs who spend their afternoons trying to bomb
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