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Born
in the Great State of New Jersey,
Dean Obeidallah'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, co-starred on Comedy Central’s “The
Axis of Evil” Comedy TV special. He is the co-creator 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. Dean has appeared twice on
ABC’s “The View,” on the nationally syndicated TV series “Comics
Unleashed with Byron Allen” and was one of five comedians profiled
in the recent one hour TV Special entitled: “Stand Up:
Muslim-American Comics Come of Age” which aired in the US on PBS
and internationally on BBC World and Al Jazeera.
Dean
co-directed and co-produced the award winning documentary “The
Muslims Are Coming!” featuring a tour of American-Muslim comedians
performing free comedy shows across the heartland of America in the
hopes of using comedy to foster understanding and dispel
misconceptions about Muslims. The film also features special guest
interviews with various well known people including: “The Daily
Show’s” Jon Stewart and Assif Mandvi, Russell Simmons, Soledad
O’Brien and Ali Velshi, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, comedians Lewis
Black, David Cross, Lizz Winstead and Colin Quinn as well as
Congressman Keith Ellison, and many more. The film is now available
on Netfilx, iTunes and Amazon.
Dean
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 as a way of
fostering understanding between Arab, Muslim and
Jewish-Americans.
He is
writes for MSNBC, CNN and The Daily Beast as well as other
publications.
Dean
is also the co-creator and co-producer of the New York
Arab-American Comedy Festival .He is also proud to serve as the
Executive Director of The Amman Stand up Comedy Festival – the
first stand up comedy festival ever held in the Middle
East
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.