In 2000 , Thompson was living with then-boyfriend French documentarian Joel Soler in Hollywood . Soler had smuggled footage out of Iraq to make an E! News-style satiric political documentary comedy , Uncle Saddam , about the strange eccentricities in the home life of Saddam Hussein and his family which bubbled behind Hussein ’s dictatorial façade . Thompson wrote the narration for the movie , which was read by actor Wallace Langham . Following the movie , Thompson and Soler 's home was under surveillance by a terrorist group in West Hollywood , who eventually firebombed the couple on November 1 , 2000 . Thompson has discussed this incident in interviews with Jesse Brown of CANADALAND and fellow Canadian comic Elvira Kurt as being inspiration for his future show '' The Lowest Show on Earth '' . In the interview with Kurt , he says of the attack , " We were sleeping and a group came to our home . They filled our giant garbage cans with gasoline and set them on fire on our front lawn . They had buckets of red paint . They covered the house with it so it dripped off like blood . They put a note in the front hall that said , " In the name of Allah , the merciful and compassionate , burn this Satanic film or you will be dead . " They underlined " dead " just in case we were n't freaked out enough . " This , along with many other incidents throughout Thompson 's life , including the 1975 Centennial Secondary School shooting at his Brampton high school , led him to process incidents of terror on micro - and macrocosmic levels through his one-man comedy show '' The Lowest Show on Earth '' . Thompson went on tour with this show and secured a spot in New York off-Broadway . The posters — featuring Thompson lying supine on the ground with a big wad of semen dripping down the side of his face — went up around the city on September 10 , 2001 . The following day , the horror of September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center made the one-man show ’s difficult material completely impossible to talk about
September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center
September 11 attacks
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