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Category: Comedy
Muslim Comics in a Mordant Act of ‘Resistance’
“Look at how many brown people are here!” Dean Obeidallah said to cheers after taking the stage Sunday at the Comic Strip Live, a comedy club on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Muslim comics have a special purpose this year, and Trump is their punch line
Like many American Muslims, Maysoon Zayid wants to obliterate Donald Trump’s presidential bid. But her chosen way to accomplish this feat is a little nontraditional — it’s with punch lines.
How comedian Maysoon Zayid finds the funny side of disability and the political side of comedy.
Zayid has cerebral palsy and is Muslim and Palestinian American, all of which finds its way into her material.
Comedian Maysoon Zayid Pushes Forward Through Laughs on The Queen Latifah Show
Comedian Maysoon Zayid pushes forward through life with laughs in an interview with Queen Latifah.
Amazing Comedian/activist Maysoon Zayid was on Nick Cannon’s show this week performing stand up!
Watch a clip of Maysoon performing on Nick Cannon’s show.
23 People Who Are Changing What’s Funny Right Now
Maysoon Zayid likes to call herself a “sit-down stand-up” comic. She has cerebral palsy, which requires her to stay seated as she delivers witty jokes about her own shaky condition
Maysoon Zayid: Should Humor Make Us Uncomfortable?
Maysoon Zayid teases herself for all the ways she’s different: she has cerebral palsy, she’s Muslim, she’s Palestinian. By making us laugh at it, she gets us to think about acceptance.
Maysoon Zayid Is the Most Fearless Comic Alive
Backstage at the Tory Burch “Embrace Ambition” Summit, I am talking to Maysoon Zayid about death threats. And no, she isn’t a politician or an activist—she’s a comedian.
