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Iranian Stand-up Comedy
Iranian stand-up comedy refers to stand-up comedy by Iranians or based on Persian satire. Notable figures * Ebrahim Nabavi, 2005 Prince Claus Award winner * Hamed Ahangi * Hadi Khorsandi * Omid Djalili * Maziar Jobrani * Eslam Shams, 2006 Ensemble Academy Award Winner "West Bank Story" * Shappi Khorsandi * Mehran Khaghani, Best Comedian in Boston, 2010, Boston Phoenix * * Max Amini * Enissa Amani * |
Stand-up Comedy
Stand-up comedy is a comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of one-liners, stories, observations or a shtick that may incorporate props, music, magic tricks or ventriloquism. It can be performed almost anywhere, including comedy clubs, comedy festivals, bars, nightclubs, colleges or theatres. History Stand-up as a Western art form has its roots in the stump speech of American minstrel shows, which featured an actor in blackface delivering nonsensical monologue to the audience. While the intention of stump speeches was to mock African-Americans, they also occasionally contained political and social satire. The minstrel show would later influence theatrical traditions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as vaudeville and burlesque. The first documented use of "stand-up" as a term was in '' The Stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Phoenix
''The Phoenix'' (stylized as ''The Phœnix'') was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the ''Portland Phoenix'' and the now-defunct ''Boston Phoenix'', ''Providence Phoenix'' and ''Worcester Phoenix''. These publications emphasized local arts and entertainment coverage as well as lifestyle and political coverage. The ''Portland Phoenix'', although it is still publishing, is now owned by another company, New Portland Publishing. The papers, like most alternative weeklies, are somewhat similar in format and editorial content to the ''Village Voice''. History Origin ''The Phoenix'' was founded in 1965 by Joe Hanlon, a former editor at MIT's student newspaper, '' The Tech''. Since many Boston-area college newspapers were printed at the same printing firm, Hanlon's idea was to do a four-page single-sheet insert with arts coverage and ads. He began with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranian Cinema
The Cinema of Iran (Persian: سینمای ایران), also known as the Cinema of Persia, refers to the cinema and film industries in Iran which produce a variety of commercial films annually. Iranian art films have garnered international fame and now enjoy a global following. Iranian films are usually written and spoken in the Persian language. Iranian cinema has had many ups and downs. Along with China, Iran has been lauded as one of the best exporters of cinema in the 1990s. Some critics now rank Iran as the world's most important national cinema, artistically, with a significance that invites comparison to Italian neorealism and similar movements in past decades. A range of international film festivals have honoured Iranian cinema in the last twenty years. Many film critics from around the world have praised Iranian cinema as one of the world's most important artistic cinemas. History Visual arts in Iran The earliest examples of visual representations in Iranian history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran Von Ghasri
Tehran Von Ghasri, or simply Tehran Ghasri ( fa, تهران قصری, ), professionally known as Tehran formerly Tehran SoParvaz, is an American international comedian, actor, host, television and radio personality, entertainer of African-American and Persian descent. Tehran was raised in Washington D.C. and surrounding Washington Metropolitan Area, where he began his career hosting on television and curating events. Tehran is multilingual, performing comedy in Persian, mixed Arabic, some Hebrew, French, and primarily English. Early life Tehran Von Ghasri was born in Washington D.C. to an Iranian immigrant father and African-American mother, who met in the U.S.A. in college. He was named after Tehran, the capital of Iran. His parents chose the name "Tehran" as a reminder of his Persian roots while the name sounded African American as well. His name was subject to controversy in Islamic Republic of Iran courts. On attempting to receive Iran status, courts in Iran ruled the use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahra Noorbakhsh
Zahra Noorbakhsh (born June 11, 1980) is an Iranian-American comedian, writer, actor and co-host of the ''#GoodMuslimBadMuslim'' podcast. ''The New Yorker'' called her one-woman show ''All Atheists Are Muslim'' a highlight of the New York International Fringe Festival. She is a contributor to the ''New York Times'' featured anthology ''Love Inshallah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women'', with a monthly column entitled, "My Infidel Husband". Noorbakhsh was a featured comic at the first-ever Muslim Funny Fest in New York City. Career Noorbakhsh graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Theatre & Performance Studies in 2006. Though she began as a stand-up comic, her love of impressions, characters and storytelling drew her into the world of theater and ultimately solo performance. Her solo performance career began in 2007 under the direction of W. Kamau Bell at the Solo Performance Workshop, where Noorbakhsh penned several shows, including ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enissa Amani
Enissa Amani (Persian language, Persian: انیسا امانی; born 8 December 1981 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-German comedian, artist and activist. She was the first European Woman with an international Netflix special in 2018 called and a follow-up short-special called "Comedians of the World" also on Netflix. She produced an hosted a viral panel talk about racism called in 2020, which led her to win the German Grimme Online Award; the Grimme Award is one of the most prestigious German television awards. Her comedy often focuses on the subjects of politics, social issues, racism, and ethnicity. Life and career Amani studied law at the University of Cologne in Germany and won several beauty pageants, such as ''Miss West-Germany'' She quit law to study literature and philosophy and presented as a host on QVC for only a few months before she went to an open mic in 2013. Shortly thereafter, she appeared in several German TV and late night shows and won the German Comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Amini
Max Amini ()(born in 1981 in Tucson, Arizona) is an Iranian-American comedian, actor, producer, and director. Max is known primarily as a world touring stand-up comedian, and has appeared on shows such as NBC's '' Heroes'', Netflix's ''Real Rob'' with Rob Schneider, and Comedy Central's ''Mind of Mencia.'' On an episode of ''Spike's Car Radio Podcast'', Jerry Seinfeld named Max Amini one of the top comedians to watch. Max established his production company, Abstraction Media in 2010, and has sold projects to networks such as Voice Of America, Discovery, and more. Other projects include directing a Netflix original stand-up special, ''Enissa Amani: Erhenwort'', and the feature film, ''James The Second'', set to release in 2022. Early life and education Max Amini was born in Tucson, Arizona, to Iranian parents who immigrated after the 1979 revolution. He went to a high school in Washington, D.C. and then moved to California and graduated from the school of Theater, Film and Telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Ahdoot
Dan Kamyar Ahdoot ( fa, دن آهدوت ; he, דן אחדות) is an American actor, writer, and comedian. He is known for his TV appearances on Netflix's ''Cobra Kai'', Disney's ''Kickin' It'', Showtime's ''Shameless'', and the Seeso series '' Bajillion Dollar Propertie$''. He has also developed TV shows for CBS, Fox, Hulu, Freeform, and Pop. Early life Ahdoot is ethnically an Iranian Jew, hailing from Great Neck, New York.Miller, David Ian"Finding My Religion: Dan Ahdoot, Jewish Iranian American comic, on holidays and life in America" ''San Francisco Chronicle'', December 11, 2006. Accessed November 12, 2008. Speaking on his upbringing, he said: "I grew up in Great Neck, New York, which is actually a hotbed of Iranian Jewry, so I didn't really know that I was very different until I went to college." He completed pre-med studies at Johns Hopkins University, and was accepted into medical school, but ultimately decided to pursue stand-up comedy instead. Career Ahdoot has de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehran Khaghani
Mehran Khaghani ( fa, مهران خاقانی; born May 25, 1976) is a British-American standup comedian, comedic director, and comedy event producer based in the Boston Metro area, of Iranian descent. In 2010, a reader survey in the Boston Phoenix named him Boston's best comedian of the year. Born in London to Iranian parents, Mehran grew up in the United Kingdom, Iran, Turkey and the suburbs of Boston. In 1993, at the age of 17, he cofounded Lexington High School's first LGBT organization, called Bi-GLASS, with two fellow students, Fred Simon, now a New York-based visual artist, and musician Amanda Palmer, longtime frontwoman of The Dresden Dolls and now a solo artist. After years in the hospitality industry and a four-year stint holding various administrative positions at Harvard University (including a year as Project Manager to the Office of the President and Provost under former President, Larry Summers) Mehran began pursuing a career in standup comedy in 2007. He has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Satire
Persian satire refers to satires in Persian literature. Early Persian satire The Arabic poetic genre of ''hija'' (satirical poetry) was introduced after the Islamic conquest of Persia. The Greek dramatic genre of comedy was also later introduced after Aristotle's ''Poetics'' was translated into Arabic in the medieval Islamic world, where it was elaborated upon by Islamic philosophers from Persia, such as Al-Farabi and Avicenna. Due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy from Greek dramatic representation and instead identified it with the Arabic poetic form of ''hija''. They viewed comedy as simply the "art of reprehension", and made no reference to light and cheerful events, or troublesome beginnings and happy endings, associated with classical Greek comedy. The term "comedy" thus became synonymous with "satire" in medieval European literature after the Latin translations of the 12th century. Perhaps the most notable early Persian satirist is Obeid e Zakani (d. 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shappi Khorsandi
Shaparak Khorsandi ( fa, شاپرک خرسندی, born 8 June 1973), formerly known as Shappi Khorsandi, is an Iranian-born British comedian and author. She is the daughter of the Iranian political satirist and poet Hadi Khorsandi. Her family left Iran for the United Kingdom following the Islamic Revolution. In January 2016, she became President of Humanists UK and Vice-President in 2019. Her second book and first novel, ''Nina is Not OK'', was published in 2016. Background and early life Shaparak Khorsandi ( fa, شاپرک خرسندی) was born on 8 June 1973 in Tehran. Her parents were Fatemah, and the satirist and poet Hadi Khorsandi. The family fled from Iran to London after the Islamic Revolution following a joke that her father composed which was seen as critical of the revolutionary regime. Khorsandi graduated from King Alfred's College, now the University of Winchester, in 1995, with a degree in Drama, Theatre and Television. After graduating, she worked in various ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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