the secret life of pope francis the first

Pope Francis is greeting a row of special guests at the Vatican.
He comes to one distinguished looking gentleman in a black suit.
The Pope: "And who are you?"
Gentleman: "Yo Yo Ma."
Pope Francis leaps at the gentleman. The two fall to the ground in a combative clinch. There is much scuffling and kerfuffling.
Several dark suited aides intervene and separate them.
Pope Francis is still trying to get at his guest who looks nonplussed.
As the Pope struggles he mutters things like: "Y tu mama tambien," "I keel you gringo," and so on.
Among the dark suits, the Pope's personal secretary pleads with him to desist.
Personal Secretary: "What is it your Holiness? Why are you doing this?"
The Pope: "He insulted my mother. He did. He really did. He said: Your Mama."
Personal Secretary: "He said Yo Yo Ma, your Holiness. It's his name. He's a famous pianist."
Pope Francis calms down.
But as he walks away he looks back at Yo Yo Ma who clearly mouths "Your Mama," and the Pope runs back to him and the two fall to the ground fighting again.

(Cut to music segment with Wasp singing Mean Man.)

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If The Joke Needs An Explanation, It's Not A Good Joke: The above vignette was written in the year 2015 after a Muslim terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices in Paris. Pope Francis had issued what I regarded as an improperly ambiguous statement appearing to blame the victims of the Muslim attack who had, the Pope implied, brought their own murders on themselves by daring in print to criticise Islam the religion of Muslims. A dozen people had been massacred at the newspaper offices and additionally four Jewish people had been murdered in a related attack at a supermarket. The section of the Pope's statement which  in my view appeared to justify violence, noted that if the organiser of his Papal trips his good friend Doctor Alberto Gasparri insulted his (the Pope's) mother, "then a punch awaits him."