May 12, 2019
Ep. 220: Atheer Yacoub is a New York based comedian, writer, and
podcaster. Atheer's comedy draws from her personal experience
growing up as a Palestinian-Muslim in Alabama.
She came to the city with high hopes of making it in a respectable
career, but found herself in comedy instead. She makes her
traditional Arab mother proud by standing in front of complete
strangers and talking about her mismatched upbringing, her
misadventures in the big city, and the psychological baggage both
entail.
Atheer hopes to make you laugh, or at the very least, redefine what
audiences think when they hear "Arab" and "bomb" in the same
sentence. Inspired by everything from Lucille Ball to Dave
Chappelle, Atheer wants to bring her unique perspective to the
larger comedy world in the vain hopes that someone out there can
prescribe her the right pills to make it all better.
Atheer has appeared on Gotham Comedy
Live, which aired on AXSTV
and recently taped a half-hour special for Comedy
Central Arabia. She is also a writer on
The Breakdown with Mehdi Barakchian
and Passport Control
with Mehdi
Barakchian, which aired on
BRICTV. She co-hosts The No Fly List
Podcast and has also been featured in the
Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy
Festival, Toronto's SheDot Festival, The New York Arab
American Comedy Festival, The Big Brown Comedy Hour, and
1001 Laughs Dearborn Comedy Festival.
For more on Atheer, check out her website at: http://www.atheeryacoub.com/about.html
For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic
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Huge shout out to our "Super-Duper Supporters" Elizabeth A. Atkins and Catherine Atkins Greenspan of Two Sisters Writing and Publishing
Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
(incompetech.com)
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