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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Sunday Bonus: Me on Dean Obeidallah show wrapping up the week

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Hey Friends

Just thought I'd post my conversation from Friday night on SIRIUSXM. Dean will be my guest on Tuesday's show

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and happy Sunday, everybody.

0:05.4

I've got a conversation I wanted to share with you because I was on Dean Obey Dollars show on Sirius XM on Friday night with another commentator named Tara Dublin.

0:16.3

I thought it was a pretty good conversation.

0:18.3

Sometimes it was, sometimes it wasn't.

0:20.2

I tried to debunk what I thought and think are conspiracy theories, which is part of why I wanted to share this with you, because I thought there's a lot to be said here. And I think that we need to do as good of a job as we can to get to the truth no matter what it is, whether it's convenient, whether we like it, whether we don't.

0:42.0

So, Dino Badala, Tara Dublin, and I, that's what I've got for you here on a Sunday morning.

0:46.0

Looks like I'll have J.L. Covan joining me tomorrow for a regular show.

0:48.1

It is going to okay.

0:49.5

You're in upstate New York.

0:50.4

We're in with my family.

0:51.8

Mom is doing better.

0:52.8

Thanks for asking.

0:54.3

Thanks for all of your support.

0:57.2

And now here is my Sunday conversation.

1:02.2

I'm calling it with Dean Obidalla, Tara Dublin, which originally aired on a series exam on Friday night.

1:05.4

And great guy.

1:07.0

Pete, good to see you, my friend.

1:08.4

Dean, yeah, I do.

1:09.4

My face looks like a J-6er Ice Agent,

1:11.6

so I always wear Lulu Lemon just to throw people off.

1:16.2

That's how you do?

1:16.9

Is that a little lemon top right now?

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