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Cross-cultural comedy
John Oliver Brings Cross-Cultural Strengths to Political Comedy
With his discernible English accent, John Oliver once asked the crowd to shout out D.C. Public Schools on Twitter and thanked Oprah for his win at the Emmys. “I met Oprah once,” Oliver joked. “It was like meeting the queen, […]
Kumail Nanjiani’s Quick Rise to Fame Through Culture-Based Comedy
Kumail Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American comedian, actor, and screenwriter from Karachi, Pakistan. Nanjiani was raised, along with his brother, by his parents Shabana and Aijaz Nanjiani. At the age of 18, Nanjiani immigrated to the United States to study computer […]