Peter the persian, the self proclaimed comedioligist is a blast. Born in Tehran “the Denver of the Middle East”, Peter spent most of his young life in Iran before moving the United States to persue his higher education. Having majored in Political Sciences and earned his JD, Peter is both a practacing lawyer and a professional comediologist in his current how town of Los Angeles and you can usually catch him as a regular at the Comedy Store.
Peter’s favourite comedy sets include a lot of satirical comedy which he delivers with mastery, I literally could not stop laughing the first time I watched this clip:
Excerpts from an in depth expose’ on the loveable Maz Jobrani in the OC Register:
No matter what roles he’s playing, he’s equally as happy to come out onto a stage as himself and do stand-up.
“With stand-up, 99 percent of the time it’s fantastic,” he says “When you’re on tour and it’s your audience coming to see you, there’s a lot of excitement and they get you, they understand you and they love you.”
Maz has a Degree in Political Sciences dropped out of the PHD program in Political Sciences to pursue his passion in comedy…
Putting his degree in political science to good use in his act, Jobrani loves to talk politics but now that George W. Bush is out of the White House, he’s finding it difficult to pull material off our new president.
“What’s funny is that Obama is so amazing in the way he debates and talks because he takes his time and it’s so nice to actually have a president who thinks before he speaks,” he says. “For comedy, it’s horrible. I’m looking for material and I can’t find any on this guy. But there are so many other things going on and the Iranian president supplies me with plenty of material.”
The article speaks the truth as well see the post election mess that is sadly going on in Iran today. I think there’s alot of credit to what the Axis of Evil is trying to do by bringing more laughs to a historically very turbulant region.
After breaking all box-office records at the Edinburgh Festival and then going on a forty date sell-out tour across the UK, this is Omid's greatest show, recorded live at The Long Palladium captured in all its glory.
