| Invitation |
| Dean Obeidallah |
| Dhaya Lakshminarayan |
| Dan Nainan |
| Narinder Singh |
| Photos |
| IAAC COMEDY AT GOTHAM COMEDY CLUB - August 31, 2009 | ||
| Dean Obeidallah | ||
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| Born in the Great State of New Jersey, Dean's comedy comes in large part from his unique background of being the son of a Palestinian father and a Sicilian mother. Dean, an award winning comedian who was at one time a practicing attorney, has appeared on Comedy Central's "Axis of Evil" Comedy special and is the co-creator of Comedy Central.com's critically acclaimed Internet series "The Watch List" featuring a cast of all Middle Eastern-American comedians performing stand up and sketch comedy. Dean recently made his second appearance on ABC's "The View" and appeared on the nationally syndicated TV series "Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen." Dean also was one of five comedians profiled in the recent one hour TV Special entitled: "Stand Up: Muslim-American Comics Come of Age" which aired in the US on PBS and internationally on BBC World and Al Jazeera. Dean has appeared on numerous international and national television and radio programs including CNN's "American Morning" and "The Situation Room," PBS' "Newshour with Jim Lehrer," HD's "Dan Rather Reports," NPR, Fox News Radio, ABC's "20/20," Al Jazeera's "Min Washington," "Democracy Now with Amy Goodman" and CNN International's "Inside the Middle East." In addition, he has been featured in various publications including Time magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times and he writes frequently for The Huffington Post. Dean is proud to have received the first annual "Bill Hicks Spirit Award" for "thought provoking comedy" (named after the late comedian Bill Hicks) from the NY Underground Comedy Festival and the Hicks' Family. Dean is the co-creator and co-producer of the NY Arab-American Comedy Festival (www.arabcomedy.org) which held its 6th annual festival in New York City this past May. He also serves as the Executive Director of The Amman Stand up Comedy Festival - the first stand up comedy festival ever held in the Middle East which took place in December 2008. The second annual Amman Festival will be held December 4-11, 2009. He also co-created the comedy show "Stand up for Peace" along with Jewish comic Scott Blakeman which they perform at colleges across the country in support of peace in the Middle East and fostering understanding between Arab and Jewish-Americans. (www.standupforpeace.com) In addition to performing comedy throughout the US, Dean has performed in the Middle East in Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Haifa, Dubai, Oman, Sharm El-Sheikh and Ramallah. For more information about Dean, please visit: www.deanofcomedy.com. |
