abstract:The New York Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival started in 2004. The festival is produced in association with Comedy Central, the Huffington Post, and Caroline's comedy club located at Time's Square in New York City.
Dean Obeidallah, founder of the NewYork Arab-American ComedyFestival and a stand-up comedian who conducts workshops in the Middle East, said he has witnessed an explosion in the number of local comics in the region.