Khaby didn’t need punchlines. His comedic empire was built on the ability to mock overly complicated solutions to simple problems — slicing through the internet’s life-hack clutter with a single shrug. But no number of well-timed glances could rescue him from the labyrinth of U.S. visa law. Khaby didn’t need punchlines. His comedic empire was built on the ability to mock overly complicated solutions to simple problems — slicing through the internet’s life-hack clutter with a single shrug. But no number of well-timed glances could rescue him from the labyrinth of U.S. visa law.