Leaving her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, Maria Shehata quickly earned herself a place at the table at some of the best comedy clubs in New York City. Maria’s sharp and original stand-up, combined with her crowd pleasing conversational delivery has brought her appearances in NY’s Arab-American Comedy Festival, the Emerging Comics showcase at the New York Underground Comedy Festival, Comedy Central’s The Watch List, TLC, Women’s Entertainment Network, Dandana TV, SiTV, and numerous guest appearances on Sirius Satellite Radio.
Website
mariashehata.com
Influences
TV Shows
Friday Night with Greg Giraldo, Comedy Central’s The Watch List, Cinematherapy on WE network, TLC, and Discovery Channel’s Cash Cab.
Films
Albums
Maria Shehata's Interests
General
If I wasn't a comedian I'd be doing something with food. I wanted to go to culinary school, not to be a chef, but just to be able to talk about food all day. I should be fatter than I am. I also like to play pool, watch netflix and order chinese, put myself on fasts and break them, lose my wallet, exercise at 10am while everyone else is at work, read cnn.com, hit 'home' on myspace 3500 times in the course of an afternoon, look for travel deals on orbitz even though i have no money, go to coffeeshops to write and spend the entire time on youtube instead, start blogs with "I couldn't help but wonder" and think about how my life parallel's with Carrie Bradshaw's, wander through barnes and noble when i'm down, plan how to change my life next.
Music
Cathy I'm lost I said, though I knew she was sleeping.
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike
they've all come to look for America.
Movies
"I felt when I walked in that there was something between us. There was an impulse that we were both following. So that gave me the right to come in and talk to you. Otherwise I never would have felt that I had the right to talk to you or say anything to you. I never would have had the courage to talk to you. And with him I felt there was nothing and I could sense it. When I walked in, I knew I was right. Did you feel that way?" - Travis Bickle - Taxi Driver
Television
The Office is the only updated thing I watch anymore. I still watch FRIENDS, Sex and the City and Seinfeld regularly. Which sucks for conversating.
"Hey did you see what happened on Lost?"
"Um, I don't watch Lost, but the Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld was on last night! NO SOUP FOR YOU! hahahaha!"
"...right yeah... good one."
Books
David Sedaris. Love Monkey - Kyle Smith. Augusten Burroughs. Chuck Klosterman. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho.
Heroes
Rachael Ray...You shut up. She makes a living travelling all over the world, and eating. Is there anything I'd rather do with my life? I love her.
About me: If you ask me, I'm awesome. But if you need another opinion, here's what Comedy's Rye Silverman had to say: All the following applies to Maria: She smells terrific. She kicks ass at table hockey. She's hot. She's funny. She can drink. She can juggle. She makes a hell of a pound cake. She has danced with the devil in the pale moonlight. She can cook like nobody's business. Did I mention she smells terrific? Good. Cause I want the record to show it. Hell of a break dancer. Open minded. Good fashion sense. Knows what good coffee is. She put Baby in the corner and you know what? Patrick Swayze had nothing to say about it.
New medication, new tracks. Everything from Swineflu Fever to Building Prisons On Front Lawns to Getting Redeployed to A Dying Puppies Last Wish!!!!!!!
I HOPE THEY BRING YOU THE SAME JOY THEY HAVE BROUGHT INTO MY LIFE!!!!
Your comedy central video would not work for me, so I just laughed at the starving African children who you would like to meet. I understand that you're such a good cook, it would be easy to make them your slaves. Good strategy!
Dude - so weird i had a dream about u last night - but u were taller ha ha ha. No joke. You were like 5'2" it was freaking me out....How are u? Miss ur face! Crazy today but i'll call u 2mor XOXOX
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