| One Night Only | Maz Jobrani |
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his Iranian heritage to explore life in America after September 11,
Jobrani’s artful blend of humour and satirical insight has taken him
from Sunset Strip’s famous Comedy Store to The Tonight show with Jay
Leno and caught the attention of Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New York
Times, The LA Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Iranian-American actor/comedian Maz Jobrani has appeared in films
opposite Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn and Ice Cube, but it is his unique
brand of stand-up comedy that is bound to have audiences and critics
talking when he makes his first visit to Australian in February, 2008.
As an actor, Maz recently played Gourishankar P.V. Subramamiam, an
Indian lawyer turned NY cab driver who took part in the plot to rob
Mick Jagger in the ABC’s sitcom Knights of Prosperity. Prior to that,
he was best known for his big screen role as 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 Suddenly30. In
addition, he has appeared in 24 (Season Two) Malcolm in the Middle,
Still Standing, The West Wing, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, ER, Law
& Order, and a memorable turn as The Sikh in the hilarious 2004
season finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Jobrani is a member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, which features
some of the world’s top Middle Eastern-American comics. Earlier this
year the Axis of Evil Comedy Central Special premiered as the first
all-Middle-Eastern show on American TV. In addition to the Tonight Show
he has done stand up on 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. He also performs stand-up at The Comedy
Store and The Laugh Factory on LA’s famous Sunset Strip as well as many
top clubs in New York, including The Comedy Cellar.
Jobrani was born in Tehran and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He
caught the acting bug after portraying the lead in his eighth grade
production of Li’l Abner and studied theatre throughout high school.
Following his parents’ desire for him to become a lawyer Maz earned a
BA in Political Science and Italian at UC Berkeley. While beginning a
PhD program in Political Science at UCLA, he visited the university’s
prestigious theatre program and was immediately hooked back on acting,
leading him to drop out of the PhD program to pursue his childhood
passion.
"Very Funny and Timely" Newsweek
“Devilishly funny” and “Extraordinary” LA Weekly
Maz Jobrani
One Night Only
Sydney
Enmore Theatre Newtown
Saturday 2nd February, 2008
Ticketek – 132 849
Melbourne
The Comedy Theatre
Sunday 3rd February, 2008
Ticketek - 1300 795 012
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