Comedy impresario eyes humor to replace hatred

It was last summer and Israeli-Palestinian tensions were at the highest they had been for some time when Jamie Masada hit on a formula for world peace - forget about guns and bombs, and just tell jokes to each other.

The onetime stand-up comic is, after all, owner of Hollywood nightclub The Laugh Factory.

Still, it's one thing to get a liquored-up audience laughing at lines like, "Take my mother-in-law, please". It's another to bring people from across the world who dislike each other together - and hope they will laugh at each other.