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"Champions of Middle Eastern culture, Ronnie Khalil and Ryan Shrime are set to reinvent last year’s highly successful Middle Eastern Comedy Festival, to be held in Los Angeles, Oct. 4-7, 2010. The event will showcase stand-up comics of Middle Eastern descent, including Arabs, Israelis, Persians, Afghanis, and more, as well as stage a variety of comedy sketches.
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The festival will kick off at Hollywood’s Laugh Factory with a “brown carpet gala”, followed by three nights of entertainment at the Acme Comedy Theatre. At the closing awards ceremony, Khalil and Shrime will honor Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time star Jake Gyllenhaal". Source: punchlinemagazine.com
For more information: www.mideastcomedyfest.com
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"Jerry Stiller and Ann Meara – a long respected comedy team – read a letter written by [George] Carlin on Jan. 9, 2006, days after he was released from the hospital, having been operated on for congestive heart failure. The letter concludes: PS: “No need to reply unless you need medical advice.”
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