1518 Dean Obeidallah + News & Clips

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

Politics, News

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Dean joins me at 26 mins after the clips show

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Born in the Great State of New Jersey, Dean Obeidallah's comedy comes in large part from his unique background of being the son of a Palestinian father and a Sicilian mother. Dean, an award winning comedian who was at one time a practicing attorney, co-starred on Comedy Central's "The Axis of Evil" Comedy TV special. He is the co-creator of Comedy Central.com's critically acclaimed Internet series "The Watch List" featuring a cast of all Middle Eastern-American comedians performing stand up and sketch comedy. Dean has appeared twice on ABC's "The View," on the nationally syndicated TV series "Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen" and was one of five comedians profiled in the recent one hour TV Special entitled: "Stand Up: Muslim-American Comics Come of Age" which aired in the US on PBS and internationally on BBC World and Al Jazeera.

Dean co-directed and co-produced the award winning documentary "The Muslims Are Coming!" featuring a tour of American-Muslim comedians performing free comedy shows across the heartland of America in the hopes of using comedy to foster understanding and dispel misconceptions about Muslims. The film also features special guest interviews with various well known people including: "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart and Assif Mandvi, Russell Simmons, Soledad O'Brien and Ali Velshi, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, comedians Lewis Black, David Cross, Lizz Winstead and Colin Quinn as well as Congressman Keith Ellison, and many more. The film is now available on Netfilx, iTunes and Amazon.

Dean co-created the comedy show "Stand up for Peace" along with Jewish comic Scott Blakeman which they perform at colleges across the country in support of peace in the Middle East and as a way of fostering understanding between Arab, Muslim and Jewish-Americans.

He is writes for MSNBC, CNN and The Daily Beast as well as other publications.

Dean is also the co-creator and co-producer of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival .He is also proud to serve as the Executive Director of The Amman Stand up Comedy Festival – the first stand up comedy festival ever held in the Middle East

Dean is proud to have received the first annual "Bill Hicks Spirit Award" for "thought provoking comedy" (named after the late comedian Bill Hicks) from the NY Underground Comedy Festival and the Hicks' Family.

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0:00.0	Stand up.
0:02.0	Hello, my friends, and welcome to the Tuesday show.
0:04.9	I've got the great Dean Obidala joining me today.
0:07.6	If you want to jump to that conversation, it begins at 26 minutes in.
0:12.2	But I've got a whole clip show for you coming as well.
0:15.8	So I hope that you will enjoy the clips I've gathered for you.
0:20.3	I hope that you're doing okay here on a Tuesday.
0:22.7	I'm still in Syracuse at my parents' house,
0:25.3	but I am headed back to home downstate today for a few days,
0:30.1	at least to help Eva, my 21-year-old,
0:33.9	almost 21 on the 21st, her golden birthday,
0:36.6	and her film that she's making.
0:38.8	She's making a short film, and I'm going to join the crew.
0:42.4	I'm an extra.
0:43.6	I'm helping out for two days, so you might not hear from me going to try to post stuff,
0:47.6	but please hopefully be patient while I support my daughter during this very, very busy tumultuous time.
0:54.9	And we will get back to normal posting, obviously, next week.
0:58.8	But I'll probably be here.
1:00.0	You know me.
1:01.0	All right.
1:01.4	Well, I've got a whole bunch of clips for you from yesterday that I want to share with you.
1:05.3	And again, I will get back to the headlines as well, including, let me just mention a couple of things you might not have heard of
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