I hope you check out the new video I made with my friend Negin Farsad and other comedians from the NY Arab-American Comedy Festival which is part of Jordan's Queen Rania's Youtube project to dispel stereotypes
Click DEAN OF COMEDY to read my bio and check out my new website
Check out this episode I’m in from Comedy Central’s "The Watch List." (I also co-created the series.) This episode is called "Arabs are the New Blacks" - it starts out as stand up but then turns into a sketch.
Website
deanofcomedy.com
Influences
Jon Stewart, Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, Bill Hicks, Colin Quinn, Marc Maron, Lenny Bruce and any comic who challenges the audiences' views.
Members
HERE IS MY 7 MINUTE REEL OF CLIPS FROM MY TV APPEARANCES ON VARIOUS SHOWS INCLUDING COMEDY CENTRAL'S "AXIS OF EVIL" SPECIAL, ABC's "THE VIEW," MY INTERVIEW BY DAN RATHER, CNN AND MORE.
TV Shows
Comedy Central's "The Watch List," "Axis of Evil" and "Tough Crowd," ABC's "The View," CNN's "American Morning," "Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen," FUSE network, PBS' "Newshour with Jim Lehrer," CNN International's "Inside the Middle East," ABC's "20/20," Japan's NHK, ABC News Now, NY1, numerous sketches on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien." I have also written jokes which have been featured on "Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update" and CBS' "Late, Late Show." I am featured in the bonus material of the DVD of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" in the section entitled, "Arab-American comedians."
I hope you check out The Arabs Gone Wild Tour - next show Saturday, October 10, 2009 in Montreal, Canada at the Gesu Theater. For ticket info please visit: www.admission.com or call 800-361-4595.
I hope you check out my recent appearance on CNN about the reporter throwing the shoe at President Bush!
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I hope you will visit my website and add your email address to my emailing list so I can let you know about my coming TV appearances and live shows at WWW.DEANOFCOMEDY.COM
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Here is my Bio written in the third person as if I didn't actually write it myself:
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 ABC’s “The View,” Comedy Central’s “Axis of Evil” Comedy special and is the co-creator and co-producer 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. He is also one of five comedians profiled in the upcoming one-hour documentary airing nationally on PBS in 2008 entitled: “Stand Up: Muslim-American Comics Come of Age.”
Dean has also appeared on numerous international and national programs including CNN's "American Morning" and “The Situation Room,” PBS’ “Newshour with Jim Lehrer,” “Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen,” Showtime Arabia, HD’s “Dan Rather Reports,” NPR, Fox News Radio, ABC's "20/20," “Al Jazeera,” “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 and The Los Angeles Times.
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 co-created along with comedian Maysoon Zayid the annual NY Arab-American Comedy Festival. The fifth annual Festival was held in January 2008 in NYC and featured over 50 Arab-American performers doing stand up comedy, and writing as well as starring in sketch comedy and comedic films. For details please visit our website ArabComedy.org
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) His one-man show, “I Come in Peace,” a comedic look at his life as an Arab-American in post 9/11 America, was an official selection of the 2006 NY International Fringe Festival.
In addition to performing comedy throughout the US, Dean has performed in the Middle East in Amman, Beirut, Haifa, Dubai and Ramallah.
For more information about Dean, please visit: MY WEBSITE
Thanks for the add!! I will be at Cobbs Comedy on sept 14 for the Randomly Selected Comedy Tour!! I can't wait. I already got my tickets!! Thanks Payman
Hey! U are the funniest Arabic/Sicilian comedian that I have ever seen perform(and the only one). Haha. U, Maysoon, Ahmed, and Maz were hilarious. I am soo glad that the AAI helped get U all here. Don't take so long to get back to Denver!!
i just got back from Jordan last night. i loved your show at the Courtyard on the 12th! you're hilarious and one of the funniest comedians i know of. :)
CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS! I am still disappointed by Comedy Central not picking up "The Watch List," but the doc on PBS was fantastic. I hope you continue to break down barriers, and make our world a more open-minded and accepting one.
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