Maz Jobrani is comedy gold! February 3, 2012

Maz Jobrani is best known as a founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour,
which featured some of the top Middle Eastern-American comics in the world. The
Axis of Evil Comedy Central Special premiered in 2007 as the first show on American
TV with an all Middle Eastern/American cast. The DVD was also released in 2007.
The tour started in the US and later went to the Middle East in the fall of 2007, selling
out 27 shows in Dubai, Beirut, Cairo, Kuwait and Amman (where they performed in
front of the King and Queen of Jordan.) Maz is currently on his own solo tour titled
"Maz Jobrani; Brown and Friendly", which again is taking him all over the world
including the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Australia. The "Brown and
Friendly" Comedy Special premiered on Showtime in the Fall of 2009 and is now out
on DVD at www.MazJobrani.com, I-tunes and Amazon.com.
In movies Maz starred in the role of "Moly" in Ice Cube's "Friday After Next." He also
played Secret Service Agent "Mo" in the Sydney Pollack thriller "The Interpreter,"
opposite Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman as well as Jennifer Garner's colleague, Glenn,
in "13 Going on 30." In television he recently shot a pilot for ABC titled "Funny in
Farsi" and is recurring on ABC's "Better off Ted." He has been a regular on ABC's
"Knights of Prosperity" as well as FOX's "Life on a Stick." He has also Guest Starred
on "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "The West Wing", "24", "NYPD Blue", "ER" and much
more.
Most recently Maz filmed the groundbreaking ABC pilot "Funny In Farsi" directed by
Barry Sonnenfeld. If picked up for the Fall schedule, "Farsi" will be the first show on a
major American network based around a Middle Eastern-American family. Maz plays
the patriarch of the family, Kaz.
In 2008 Maz sold a TV show to CBS based on his life as an Iranian-American in the
United States. The show was best described as a Middle Eastern "Everybody Loves
Raymond." He is also preparing to shoot a film titled "Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan
Hero" - a cross between a Middle Eastern "Pink Panther" and "Bend it Like
Beckham." (Jimmy can be seen at www.jimmyvestvood.com).
Maz has done standup on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "The Late Late Show
with Craig Ferguson," "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn," Comedy Central's
"Premium Blend," and England's Paramount 2 Network. His sketch comedy
performances at the ACME Theater in Los Angeles were hailed as "devilishly funny"
and "extraordinary" by LA Weekly.
Maz was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he caught the acting bug after
portraying the lead in his eighth grade production of "Li'l Abner." He studied theater
throughout high school, and then went on to earn a BA in Political Science and Italian
at UC Berkeley. In the fall of 1994, while beginning a Ph.D. program in Political Science
at UCLA, he visited the university's prestigious theater program - and was immediately
hooked back on acting. This led to him dropping out of the Ph.D. program to pursue
his childhood passion.

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