American comics used Saudi Arabia’s first global comedy festival to skewer a debate raging at home. Critics said the event ...

Comedians are being criticized by their peers for participating in a Saudi comedy festival while speech is repressed.

On its 20th anniversary, organizers look back on a tradition that has frequently coincided with painful news events. By Christopher Kuo In 2003, with the Iraq War underway and a wave of anti-Arab ...

The title Arabs Are Not Funny is a provocation—but the show is its own proof of the opposite. The laughter in the Elgar Room last night was loud, genuine, and diverse. The comedians weren’t trying to ...

The threat level in the US went from yellow to funny when thousands packed Los Angeles theatre clubs to attend an Arab-American comedy festival last week. Dean Obeidallah co-founder and co-executive ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The comedian who made his name on the “Axis of Evil Comedy Tour” made one thing clear when he opened a recent set at Michigan State University: “Tonight, it’s not Islam 101.” For ...

On a rainy Thursday evening in Manhattan, several hundred stylishly dressed young people file into the Gotham Comedy Club. As the room fills to capacity, ubiquitous pop hits by Katy Perry and Cee-Lo ...

Dean Obeidallah co-founder and co-executive producer of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival (NYAACF), a vehicle for Arab-American comedic talent, said: “It’s an uprising – it’s our intifada, ...