Albert Brooks makes an unlikely but inspired surrogate for the United States in Looking For Comedy In The Muslim World, a sly satire of America's myopia and naïveté regarding the complexities of the ...

Preacher Moss, Yasmin Elhady, Moses The Comic, and Omar Regan have all made names for themselves on the international comedy stage. They’ve toured stand-up routines, starred in movies and on TV, but ...

For the past two decades, Muslim Americans and Britons have faced heightened levels of scrutiny from police, government bureaucracies and their fellow citizens. While civil rights activists and ...

In the upcoming romantic comedy “Americanish,” three young women are looking for love in New York City. It’s a familiar plot, but “Americanish” adds a new perspective to the genre by centering on a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Azhar Usman, a pioneer of Muslim stand-up comedy dubbed “America’s Funniest Muslim” by CNN, is set to release his first solo stand-up project, The Islamic States of America, on his YouTube ...

EXCLUSIVE: Dan Ahdoot, who has starred in series such as Cobrai Kai, and Vali Chandrasekaran, an exec producer on Modern Family are behind a new Muslim-American comedy that is in development at ABC.

Comedians typically are focused on getting laughs. But in post 9/11 America, Muslim comedians had to not only be funny, but also try to break stereotypes about who we were (without unintentionally ...

Usama Masood is a writer who is passionate about murder mysteries, prestige TV, DC (but definitely not DCEU), and good old-fashioned journalism. He currently writes for Collider, as he works towards ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Azhar Usman, a pioneer of Muslim stand-up comedy dubbed “America’s Funniest Muslim” by CNN, is set to release his first solo stand-up project, The Islamic States of America, on his YouTube ...

For a while there, it seemed like Albert Brooks would give Woody Allen a run for his money. Though not nearly as prolific, Brooks’ first four films (Real Life, Modern Romance, Lost in America and ...

Four years after 9/11, actor-director Albert Brooks takes a humorous stab at defusing the equation Muslim equals terrorist in "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World." Pic is well-timed to catch a ...