Years active 2011 – present Movies Tony | Role Actor Name Hisham Fageeh | |
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Genres Observational comedy, Satire, Character comedy, Improvisational comedy, Anti-Comedy, Surreal Humor Influences Andy Kaufman, Dave Chappelle, Zach Galifianakis, Louis C.K., George Carlin Influenced by Andy Kaufman, Dave Chappelle, Zach Galifianakis, Louis C.K., George Carlin Similar People Dave Chappelle, Louis CK, Zach Galifianakis, George Carlin, Andy Kaufman Profiles | ||
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Hisham Fageeh (Arabic: هشام فقيه; born October 26, 1987) is an Arab comedian and actor from Saudi Arabia.
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- Hisham fageeh can passion fuel your creativity in several fields of activity passion sundays
- Hisham fageeh stand up comedy gotham club
- Life and career
- Filmography
- References
Hisham fageeh stand up comedy gotham club
Life and career
Hisham Fageeh was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is the lead actor and producer in the Saudi feature film Barakah Yoqabil Barakah which was Saudi Arabia's entry as Best Foreign Language Film at the 2017 Academy Awards. Fageeh began performing stand-up comedy as a student at Columbia University, from which he graduated in May 2013. Around that time he began attending UCB Theater in New York, studying long-form improvisation.
Within a year Fageeh was taking the stage with comedians Dean Obeidallah, Maysoon Zayid, Aasif Mandvi, Aron Kader, and Hari Kondabolu. He began performing in Arabic after his satirical blog YouTube series "Isboo'iyat Hisham" (Hisham's Weeklies) went viral in December 2011, he joined the ranks of Fahad Albutairi and Bader Saleh in the Saudi stand-up circuits. He is known as the first Saudi to perform in Gotham Theater and headline an Arabic stand-up comedy tour in the United States and England.
Fageeh was a featured performer in the 2012 New York Arab-American Comedy Festival, both in the "New Faces" and "Haram night" shows. Fageeh is most known for his performance in the report from New York for La Yekthar. This specific segment of La Yekthar has been covered by many Western media outlets, such as BBC and the GlobalPost.
In 2013, his Bob Marley-inspired song parody “No Woman, No Drive” he produced with Fahad Albutairi and Alaa Wardi went viral on the same day that a number of Saudi women defied the driving ban in Saudi Arabia. The video went on to amass more than fourteen million views.
