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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
"Did you hear the one about the Muslim, the Indian and the African American?" is the subtitle of a film premiering in Dayton.
"Allah Made Me Funny" follows three Muslim comedians on stage and off as they — through knee-slapping humor — reveal what it's really like to be a Muslim in America.
The one-time viewing is sponsored by Muslim Youth of Ohio (www.myohioonline.com), the U.D. Muslim Student Association and the Dayton International Peace Museum.
In 2004 three Muslim comics hit the road for a comedy tour. Hundreds of performances and four continents later, the trio's comedy went from stage to screen in a documentary produced and directed by Andrea Kalin.
In the film, Mohammed Amer, a Kuwait-born Palestinian-American; Azhar Usman, a Chicagoan of Indian parentage; and Preacher Moss, a black Muslim convert, tell stories and launch one-liners about their lives and families.
"Allah Made Me Funny" will be shown on Friday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Sears Recital Hall in the Jessie Phillips Humanities Building at the University of Dayton. It is free and open to the community.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2167 or kmoss@DaytonDailyNews.com.
