BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:31244@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230617T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230617T213000 DTSTAMP:20230612T183805Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/funny-arabs-comedy-show-saturday/ SUMMARY:FUNNY ARABS COMEDY SHOW - SATURDAY DESCRIPTION:Washington\, DC\nFUNNY ARABS IS BACK! Arab-Americans from all o ver the US bring us laughter (again!)\n\nLINE UP:\n\nMaysoon Zayid (Specia l Guest)\n\nYasmin Elhady\n\nSarah Suzuki Harvard\n\nReema Jallaq\n\nBilal Sharmoug\n\nMahmoud Jaber\n\nEman Morgan (Headliner)\n\n \;\n\nRola Z (Host &\; Producer)\n\n \;\n\nFUNNY ARABS is a DC Stand-up Comedy series\, created by Rola Z\, featuring an Arab-American Line up of DMV\, N YC\, LA comedians. Hilarious performers you have seen at the DC Improv\, K ennedy Center\, NYC Gotham Comedy Club\, Yalla Punk Festival\, The Moth\, Peacock TV and more!\n\nMaysoon Zayid is a comedian\, actress\, writer\, a nd disability advocate. She is a graduate of Arizona State University and a Princeton Fellow. Maysoon is the co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and The Muslim Funny Fest. She was a full-time On Air Contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann and a co lumnist for The Daily Beast. She has appeared on 60 Minutes\, CNN\, ABC Ne ws\, and Oprah Winfrey Networks. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2 014 and was thrilled to collaborate with Huda Beauty.\n\nAs a professional comedian\, Maysoon has sold out top New York clubs and has toured extensi vely at home and abroad. She was a headliner on the Arabs Gone Wild Comedy Tour and The Together Live Tour. Maysoon appeared alongside Adam Sandler in You Don’t Mess With the Zohan and has written for Glamour magazine. S he limped in New York Fashion Week and is a recurring character on General Hospital. She is the author of the best-selling memoir Find Another Dream and is collaborating with Scholastic on her debut comic book Shiny Misfit s.\n\nRola Z is the creator of FUNNY ARABS and is a show producer and come dian in DC. She has performed at the NY Arab-American Comedy Festival at t he Gotham Comedy Club\, DC Improv 'Read the Room' and Montreal clubs inclu ding the Wiggle Room. A corporate woman turned comedy show producer (becau se it’s more fun)\, Rola is of Lebanese origin and has lived in Greece\, Dubai\, Cairo\, Montreal\, and more.\n\nEman Morgan is a top Egyptian-Ame rican comedian\, based in New York City. He performs nightly across the vi brant city at various clubs and mics. He has regularly headlined the New Y ork Arab American Comedy Festival for 11 consecutive years as well as perf ormed internationally in both English and Arabic material. He's back to he adline FUNNY ARABS! @emanmorgan\n\nMahmoud Jaber is a Lebanese-American co median who has been disappointing his parents by doing Stand-up comedy in Lebanon for 3 years @mahmoudjab.\n\nYasmin Elhady has toured all over the US and UK. She has performed at The Kennedy Center and has been featured o n NBC’s True Story with Ed Helms and Randall Park\, now streaming on Pea cock. You can catch her Stand-Up comedy on TikTok (100k+ followers) and he r comedic skits on IG (@yasminelhahahady). She has also appeared locally o n WUSA9 with Reese Waters\, NPR\, The Washington Post\, and in Vice Media ’s book “Little America: Incredible True Stories of Immigrants in Amer ica\,” which was later turned into an Apple TV+ series by Kumail Nanjian i. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-12-at-2.34.14-PM.png CATEGORIES:Comedy Show LOCATION:Busboys and Poets\, 2021 14th Street Northwest\, Washington\, DC\, 20009\, United States GEO:38.917657;-77.031621 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2021 14th Street Northwest\ , Washington\, DC\, 20009\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Busbo ys and Poets:geo:38.917657,-77.031621 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR