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Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming platform, has introduced it’s first exclusive stand-up comedy special, and that honor went to Maz Jobrani, with an hour he filmed pre-pandemic in Dubai, then supplemented with quarantine monologues from 2020. Performing in the Middle East means adapting to a myriad of new cultural and religious …
For fans of the original Last Comic Standing, there’s something still magical about the premise of putting comedians in a house to live together. Netflix plays into that with this new webseries, Joke House. What happens when you make seven confused Netflix comedians share a single hotel room? Nothing good! …
You can see Maz Jobrani on the new CBS sitcom, Superior Donuts, and hear about his life in Episode #91 of my podcast, Last Things First. Now he has just released his fourth solo stand-up special, and first for Netflix, called Immigrant. Jobrani recorded it in D.C. to help put …
Maz Jobrani has a new Netflix special coming out next week, and he teased a bit of it Tuesday night on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Jobrani’s parents didn’t come to his school events when he was young, which in retrospect was a good thing, because they were …
This 2016 election cycle has brought out a lot of fears, a lot of opinions on immigration, and a rise in Islamophobia, all of which concerns Maz Jobrani. And not just because the comedian was born in Iran. As Jobrani explained in his stand-up comedy set on Friday’s Late Show, …
Jermaine Fowler will star in primetime for CBS come 2017, now that the Eye Network has ordered his Superior Donuts to series for midseason. CBS had recast and reshot the pilot over the summer after passing on it for this fall. Judd Hirsch and Katey Sagal now will co-star with …
Maz Jobrani has his first starring movie out now called Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero, which he co-wrote and co-produced and calls “The Persian Pink Panther meets Borat.” He already has three Showtime comedy specials out, the latest one also the title of his best-selling book of 2015, I’m Not a Terrorist, …
As far as we’re led to believe Maz Jobrani warms up his own audience for his newest stand-up special, I’m Not a Terrorist, But I’ve Played One On TV, which premiered Friday night on Showtime. Jobrani has guest-starred on TV in the likes of True Blood and Shameless, and appeared …
The second annual Cabo Comedy Festival was supposed to start tonight at the southern tip of Baja Mexico, but Hurricane Odile had other ideas, devastating Cabo San Lucas and Los Cabos as it passed through last month. So the festival was cancelled. Or postponed, if you prefer to think of …
The second season of NUVOtv’s Stand Up & Deliver premieres tonight, with back-to-back episodes featuring headliners Maz Jobrani and Erik Griffin. It’s hosted by Julissa Bermudez and Jose Sarduy, with four stand-up comedians showcased in each half-hour episode. After tonight’s back-to-back episodes at 10 and 10:30 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, eight more …
