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Get ready to add Jo Koy to the list of stand-up comedians who’ve made it to the big time of headlining Madison Square Garden. Koy is just one of the 14 acts announced today as headliners for the 2022 New York Comedy Festival, happening Nov. 7-13, 2022, mostly across Manhattan …
Mo Amer was a refugee, which when he became a touring stand-up comedian, made for some awkward conversations when he didn’t have a passport at Customs. As he explains in this performance on The Tonight Show. Roll the clip!
Mo Amer received a gift from the comedy gods when an airline upgraded his seat last year to put him in first class next to Eric Trump. Amer turned that trip into a tale worth telling first on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and then into an even longer …
You’ve heard or read about comedian Mo Amer taking a flight across the Atlantic seated next to Eric Trump, but here on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Amer got to mine it for even more jokes. Amer, a refugee from Kuwait, also joked about growing up …
“Sometimes God just sends you the material.” — Mo Amer How stand-up comedian Mo Amer initially described his encounter with Eric Trump to his Facebook friends last Wednesday. Amer found himself sitting next to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s son, Eric Trump, on a flight last week from New York City to Scotland, …
