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List Of Muslim Comedians
This is a list of Muslim comedians based in Muslim-minority countries: *[Sibtain Raza] (born 1987) – LegendofSib.com – United States, Pakistan *Aamer Rahman (born 1982) – Australia *Aasif Mandvi (born 1966) – United Kingdom, United States *Abdullah Afzal – United Kingdom *Ali Shahalom, Ali "Ali Official" Shahalom (born 1993) – United Kingdom *Ali Hassan (comedian), Ali Hassan - Canada *Aman Ali (comedian), Aman Ali (born 1985) – United States *Azhar Usman (born 1975) – United States *Baba Ali, Ali "Baba Ali" Ardekani (born 1975) – United States *Bilal Zafar (comedian), Bilal Zafar (born 1991) – United Kingdom *Dave Chappelle (born 1973) – United States *Dean Obeidallah (born 1969) – United States *Guz Khan (Guzzy Bear) (born 1986) – United Kingdom *Hasan Minhaj (born 1985) – United States *Jay Shareef (born 1982) – United Kingdom *Jeff Mirza (born 1964) – United Kingdom *Mohammed Amer (born 1981) – United States *Nabil Abdul Rashid (born 1987) – U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aamer Rahman
Aamer Rahman (; born 17 October 1982) is an Australian stand-up comedian of Bangladeshi descent. He is best known as one half of comedy duo Fear of a Brown Planet, along with Nazeem Hussain. Early life and education Rahman's parents, Rezina Rahman and Mushfiq Rahman, were both born and brought up in Bangladesh. Rahman's father is an engineer. After Rahman's parents got married in Bangladesh they moved to the Middle East. Rahman was born in Saudi Arabia, although his family often travelled to Bangladesh. He lived in Saudi Arabia until the age of six when his family moved to Australia. They then moved to Oman when he was 10 years old, before returning to Australia when he was 13 years old. He grew up in the western and eastern suburbs of Melbourne. He has a younger sister, Rasha Rahman. Rahman attended Monash University, during which he became involved in political protests around issues such as mandatory detention, refugees, and cuts to higher education. He was an editor of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Amer
Mohammed Mustafa Amer (; born July 24, 1981) is a Palestinian-American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for his Netflix comedy special ''Mo Amer: The Vagabond'' and as a member of the comedy trio Allah Made Me Funny. Amer also appeared in the Hulu sitcom '' Ramy'' for two seasons, where he played the character Mo, Ramy's cousin who owns a diner. Additionally, he starred in the film '' Black Adam'' and created and stars in the Netflix series '' Mo'', which is loosely based on his experiences as a Palestinian refugee. The show was released in August 2022. Amer also hosted the 2023 season of Doha Debates' flagship series, filmed in Qatar's Education City. Early life Mohammed Mustafa Amer is Palestinian and the youngest of six children. His father worked as an engineer for the Kuwait Oil Company. Amer attended a British school in Kuwait, where he learned British English. At the age of 9, Amer, along with his siblings and mother, fled Kuwait during the Gulf War and immig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tez Ilyas
Mohammed Tehzeeb Ilyas (; born 8 April 1983), popularly known as "Tez" Ilyas, is a British stand-up comedian. He is best known for starring in the BBC Three comedy, ''Man Like Mobeen'' and presenting the satirical comedy programme, ''The Tez O'Clock Show'' on Channel 4. Early life Ilyas was born on 8 April 1983 to a Pakistani Punjabi Muslim family in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. His family originates from Jhelum in Pakistan. His parents divorced when he was a child. He started his career as a civil servant after studying biochemistry at Lancaster University where he also completed a master's degree. He then got a graduate job in the civil service in London. Career Ilyas fell into comedy after googling online writing courses and completing a week-long open mic workshop before becoming a comedian in 2010. In June 2015, Ilyas made a short film, ''The Fast and the Fool'' as part of the ''British Muslim Comedy'' series- five short films by Muslim comedians commissioned by the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shazia Mirza
Shazia Mirza is a British comedian, actress, and writer. She is best known for her stand-up comedy, and her articles in British newspapers ''The Guardian'' and ''The Daily Telegraph''. Early life and education Mirza was born in Birmingham, England, the eldest daughter of Punjabi Pakistani parents who moved to Birmingham, England in the 1950s. Mirza read Biochemistry at the University of Manchester and then achieved a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London. Before beginning her career in comedy, Mirza was a science teacher at Langdon Park School, where she taught Dylan Mills, now known as the grime pioneer Dizzee Rascal.Time Out London: Shazia Mirza: interview 17 June 2008 She later attended [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaista Aziz
Shaista Aziz (; born 1978) is an English journalist, writer, stand-up comedian, politician, councillor for Rose Hill and Iffley in Oxford City Council, and former international aid worker of Kashmiri-Pakistani descent. Early life Aziz's father arrived in Britain from Kashmir, Pakistan, at the age of 16 in the early 1950s. She is her parents' only daughter with two younger brothers. Aziz was born and brought up in Oxford, and read for a BA degree in English literature and Women's studies at university. Journalism career Aziz has worked as a newsroom journalist for Al Jazeera's English news website in Doha, Qatar, a broadcast journalist and producer for the BBC and has written for ''New Internationalist'' magazine. As well as media specialist for Oxfam, Amnesty International, Save the Children and Islamic Relief. She has travelled and worked all over the world from Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen to Haiti, Tajikistan, Burma, Russia, Pakistan and Indonesia. Aziz writes for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadia Azmat
Sadia Azmat (; born 1990) is an English stand-up comedian, author and broadcaster. Early life Azmat was born to Indian parents in Leyton, England. At the age of 19, she started wearing hijab. Career Azmat had been working in call-centres of varying descriptions, but in 2010, Azmat started performing stand-up comedy. In August 2011, she performed her debut show ''Please Hold – You're Being Transferred to a UK Based Asian Representative'' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Laughing Horse @ Finnegan's Wake, which was directed by Deborah Frances-White. In August 2011, Azmat also featured on BBC Radio 4's '' Front Row'' and a producer invited her to perform at the Cape Town Festival 2012. In December 2011, she performed at the Desi Central Comedy Tour in Glasgow. In August 2014, she performed her debut full-length show ''I'm not Malala'' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Laughing Horse. In September 2014, she was interviewed by Nadia Hussein and Sakinah Lenoir on B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riaad Moosa
Riaad Moosa (; born 18 June 1977) is a South African comedian, actor and doctor. Early life Moosa grew up in Grassy Park and has three siblings. He attended South Peninsula High School until 1994. His sister is a doctor, his Indian-born father is an orthopaedic surgeon, his Cape Town-born Cape Malays, Malay mother is a GP. Since he was a child, he wanted to do medicine. Moosa spent three years training in magic and became a silver medallion graduate of the College of Magic in Cape Town. He started his comedy career as a comedy magician and he was presented with the Comedy Magic award at the Center for the Magical Arts in Cape Town. His future in magic was terminated when somebody doing flash photography illuminated the wire across the stage where his magic orb was floating. Moosa then spent six years training in medicine at University of Cape Town Medical School and did his internship in hospitals near Thokoza in Gauteng, at Groote Schuur and Khayelitsha in Cape Town. In 2001, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramy Youssef
Ramy Youssef (, ; born March 26, 1991) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is known for his role as Ramy Hassan on the Hulu comedy series '' Ramy'' (2019–2022), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy and a Peabody Award in 2020. He was also nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Early life and education Ramy Youssef was born in 1991 in the Queens borough of New York City, to Egyptian parents, and raised in Rutherford, New Jersey. Ten years after emigrating from Egypt, his father became a manager at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. He was raised in a Muslim household, observing Islamic holidays, and remains a practicing Muslim. Youssef attended Rutherford High School. In high school, he and his friend Steve Way appeared on their high school television program. He went on to study po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Abdi
Prince Abdi (born 21 July 1989) is a British stand-up comedian and actor. Early life Abdi was born in Somalia and immigrated to the United Kingdom with his family in the 1980s at the age of four. He was thereafter brought up in Brixton, London where he attended Walworth Secondary School. Abdi had football trials with Millwall F.C. and Dulwich Hamlet F.C. However, he abandoned the sport at the age of 15 after incurring a severe knee injury. In 2007, Abdi graduated from Thames Valley University, University of West London with a BA (Hons) in Media. Stand-up career Abdi was originally a primary school teacher, Prince Abdi and taught in Brixton and Kilburn/West Hampstead. In his spare time, he performed free comedy shows for a lengthy period to establish himself on the stand-up circuit. He eventually gave up his part-time job at B&Q, where he had worked on weekends for ten years, and quit teaching to pursue a comedic career full-time. In 2008, Abdi was reportedly the only Soma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preacher Moss
Bryant Reginald Moss (born 1967), best known by his stage name Preacher Moss, is an American stand-up comedian and writer. He is best known as one third of comedy trio Allah Made Me Funny. Early life Moss was born in Washington, D.C. to African American parents, Clifford Moss and Mary Moss. He began practicing comedy at the age of seven, when he earned the nickname "Preacher" for his imitations of the pastor at his family's church. He was raised Christian in a Maryland suburb and was sent to a local military academy for his schooling. Moss started out doing sketch comedy when he was 17 and by his early 20s he began to make his way to comedy clubs. In 1988, at the age of 20, he converted to Islam. He graduated from Marquette University with a degree in journalism and took a job teaching emotionally disturbed children in Milwaukee, while continuing to do standup comedy.Preacher Moss Writing career In 1994, Moss was the opening act for a comic Darrell Hammond, Hammond hired him a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Regan
Omar Laquon Regan (born June 12, 1975) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and former musician. Early life Regan was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States and was raised in Highland Park, Michigan to African American parents. Regan did not know his biological father. When he was five years old, his mother, Toya Monet Regan (born 1952), converted to Islam from Christianity, and married Iman Lufman Ayman Abdullahi (born Christopher Thomas in 1956). Subsequently, Regan was raised as a Muslim. Music career Regan started his career as a musician and started writing songs at the age of nine. He formed the group S.O.A (Servants of Allah) with his brother at the age of 11 and performed their first show at the age of 12. They opened for artists including Redman, Method Man, Wu-Tang Clan, KRS-One, Royce da 5'9", Proof, and Eminem. In 1999, they were offered a single record deal with Tommy Boy Records but turned it down in hope of a better contract. However, no deal was made and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazeem Hussain
Nazeem Hussain is an Australian comedian, actor, television and radio presenter. He is best known as the creator and star of two television comedy shows, '' Legally Brown'' and '' Orange Is the New Brown''. He has also has multiple comedy specials including ''Nazeem Hussain: Public Frenemy'' (2019) on Netflix and 'Hussain in the Membrane' (2022) on Youtube. He also appeared as a correspondent for both seasons of the hit Netflix series ‘''Bill Nye Saves the World''’ with American scientist and TV personality Bill Nye (popularly known as ‘ Bill Nye the Science guy’). Hussain released his first children’s book series, ''Hy-larious Hyena'', through Scholastic Australia, in 2022. Early life Hussain was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, to parents of Sri Lankan descent. He attended Ashburton Primary School, Melbourne High School, and later graduated from Deakin University. Career Stand-up comedy As a stand up comic, Hussain was awarded the Best Newcomer Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |