Ismail Yassin is one of the most famous Arab comedians in their history. The actor benefited from studying Italian comedies in the forties, and his popularity rose to an exceptional degree in the fifties, and then began to decline until it touched the bottom. The journey of ups and downs raises questions about the relationship of the idea of the audience with artistic production and how the public mood changes due to social transformations or simply because of boredom and the desire for change. It may seem like an episode about Ismail Yassin, but it is actually an episode about laughter. How can a situation make you laugh at one moment and then falter in the next?
