Naveed Mahbub is a Bangladeshi comedian and columnist. He was awarded Best Male Comedian in the 2007 Las Vegas Comedy Festival. In 2016, Mahbub was featured in US-based comedy television channel Comedy Central. He hosts a morning radio show, ''Good Morning Bangladesh'', on ABC Radio. He writes articles on the newspaper '' The Daily Star''.

Education

Mahbub passed SSC from

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, HSC from Dhaka College and completed his bachelor's in electrical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and master's from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. While he was an MBA student at the University of California, Berkeley, he took a course in the Sandi Shore's Standup Comedy Workshop.

Career

For 13 years, Mahbub served as an engineer at Ford Motor Company, Kyocera Wireless and

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in the United States and the CEO of IBM and Nokia Siemens Networks Bangladesh. Mahbub had performed as a stand-up comic in the United States in the 2000s. He returned to Bangladesh in 2009. He founded the country's first comedy club, ''Naveed's Comedy Club'' in 2010. Since June 2012, Mahbub hosted a late night television talk show ''"Grameenphone Presents – The Naveed Mahbub Show"''. He claims to have acted in a small role in the film '' You Don't Mess with the Zohan'', featuring

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and Rob Schneider even though he isn't seen anywhere in the film.

Books

* ''Humorously Yours and Counting'' (2015)

Personal life

He married Zara Mahbub in 1998. They have two daughters, Zaina and Maryam.

References

Living people Bangladeshi comedians Bangladeshi columnists Bangladeshi male writers Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology alumni University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Haas School of Business alumni {{Bangladesh-bio-stub