I hope you will check out the PBS one hour special I'm featured in about the rise of Middle Eastern-American comedians which airs nationally May 11, 2008. (Please check local listings for specific air time.) It features comedians Ahmed Ahmed, Tissa Hami, Azhar Usman, Maysoon Zayid and myself and was shot over 3 years. For more information about the special please click HERE
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I hope you will check out my redesigned website: Dean of Comedy.com .
Here is my Bio written in the third person as if I didn't actually write it myself:
Born in the Great State of New Jersey, Dean'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, has appeared on ABC’s “The View,†Comedy Central’s “Axis of Evil†Comedy special and is the co-creator and co-producer 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. He is also one of five comedians profiled in the upcoming one-hour documentary airing nationally on PBS in 2008 entitled: “Stand Up: Muslim-American Comics Come of Age.â€
Dean has also appeared on numerous international and national programs including CNN's "American Morning" and “The Situation Room,†PBS’ “Newshour with Jim Lehrer,†“Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen,†Showtime Arabia, HD’s “Dan Rather Reports,†NPR, Fox News Radio, ABC's "20/20," “Al Jazeera,†“Democracy Now with Amy Goodman†and CNN International's "Inside the Middle East." In addition, he has been featured in various publications including Time magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.
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.
Dean co-created along with comedian Maysoon Zayid the annual NY Arab-American Comedy Festival. The fifth annual Festival will be held January 18-23, 2008 in NYC and will feature over 50 Arab-American performers doing stand up comedy, and writing as well as starring in sketch comedy and comedic films. For details please visit our website ArabComedy.org
He also 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 fostering understanding between Arab and Jewish-Americans. (www.standupforpeace.com) His one-man show, “I Come in Peace,†a comedic look at his life as an Arab-American in post 9/11 America, was an official selection of the 2006 NY International Fringe Festival.
In addition to performing comedy throughout the US, Dean has performed in the Middle East in Beirut, Haifa, Dubai and Ramallah.
For more information about Dean, please visit: MY WEBSITE
