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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.
He's
been murdered on CSI, interviewed 2 Beatles on separate continents
in the same week, and famously once got Mitt Romney's advisor to
call Governor Romney an 'etch a sketch' on CNN. Actor, comedian &
broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on
SiriusXM Insight #121.
He
recently performed in 'The Bill of Rights Concert" alongside Lewis
Black & Dick Gregory which aired on AXS. He's also appeared
at Montreal’s ‘Just for Laughs’ Festival, HBO’s U.S Comedy Arts
Festival in Aspen, hosted America's Funniest Home Videos for
ABC and Bill Maher called him ‘one of my favorite
comedians’.
Film/TV credits include 'Price Check' opposite Parker
Posey, "Becker," "Providence," "Coyote Ugly," the religious
standup performance film "The Coexist Comedy Tour" (which won Best
Documentary at the NYC Vision Fest film festival). He appears
in the upcoming features "The Girl On The Train," "Maggie Black,"
and he plays two roles in the romantic comedy ‘The Whole Truth’
starring Elisabeth Rohm and Eric Roberts.
He's
interviewed Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend,
Brian Wilson, Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, Tony Bennett, Alan Rickman,
Joey Ramone, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, Bo Diddley, Stevie
Nicks, Robbie Robertson, Ravi Shankar, Beyonce Knowles, Olivia
Harrison, Garth Brooks, William Hurt, Helen Hunt, Ashanti, John
Fogerty, William Shatner, Sen. Trent Lott, Sen. Tom Daschle, Sen.
Bernie Sanders, Ed Asner, Nile Rogers, Michael Moore, JK Simmons,
Valerie Plame, Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehy, Mavis Staples, Joel
Grey, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Lily Tomlin, Dave Matthews,
Terrence McNally, Stanley Tucci, Michael Shannon, Noel Gallagher,
Jeff Daniels, Rita Moreno, & Carl Reiner. His interview
with George Harrison included JF persuading George to play several
songs on acoustic guitar. This proved to be George's final
televised appearance and was broadcast as "The Last
Performance."
His
new film "Dream On," a road trip in search of the American Dream,
was named "Best Documentary" at the NY Independent Film Festival.
Directed by 2 time Oscar nominee Roger Weisberg, the film
examines the current state of the American Dream while retracing
the journey Alexis de Tocqueville made while writing 'Democracy in
America.' The film features 200 interviews in 55 cities
in 17 states, including Mike Huckabee, Barney Frank & Paul Krugman
and premieres on PBS Election Day Eve.
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