Comedians Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini are married to each other. Credit: MIKE BRYK

Comedians Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini are married to each other.

Comedians Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini are married to each other. MIKE BRYK

Bucking decades of Palestinian-Jewish conflict, comedians Eman El-Husseini and Jess Salomon have achieved a peaceful accord onstage and off. Their brilliant comedy duo, the El-Salomons, revolves around the women’s marriage and the cultural and religious differences that mark their respective ethnicities.

The fact that they’re lesbians and El-Husseini is Muslim adds yet more layers of rebelliousness to their act. Theirs is such an unlikely scenario, it almost seems as if they got hitched in order to mine such a union’s potential mother lode of humor. But no. Spoiler alert: They married for love.

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