from Boscov Theatre at GoggleWorks
Join the Boscov Theatre at GoggleWorks for a night of standup comedy from your favorite Muslim comedians and their friends as The Muslims Are Coming! presents: THE SWING STATE INVASION. The event will be held on Friday, Oct. 18, starting at 7:30 p.m. The lineup includes Negin Farsad (Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me), Jordan Carlos (Late Night w/ Stephen Colbert), Josh Gondelman (Last Week Tonight w/ John Oliver), and Gibran Saleem (Comedy Central).
This is a comedy lineup of all headliners, and what’s more, the show is free. The producers wanted to remove any barriers to entry because, haven’t the Swing States been through enough? If you want to watch a show that is not interrupted by a candidate’s ad, this is the show!
The Muslim-in-charge is comedian Negin Farsad, whose previous Muslims Are Coming! tour winded up as a top 10 feature documentary on Netflix. You can see her handiwork as a panelist and occasional guest host on the beloved NPR show Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. She’s also given a TEDTalk on social justice comedy seen by millions and can be seen on CNN’s latest comedy venture Have I Got News For You with Roy Wood Jr. Jordan Carlos has been a luminary on the comedy scene for years, starting with his regular appearances on the Larry Wilmore Show and now on Everything’s Trash alongside Phoebe Robinson. Josh Gondelman is also a regular on Wait Wait, producer/writer of Showtime’s Desus & Mero, and a longtime writer on Last Week Tonight. The excellent Gibran Saleem makes the Muslim sandwich complete. His standup has been featured on Comedy Central and TVLand, and he was also seen on FX’s Better Things.
The mission of the show is to bring a diversity of comedians to towns like Reading, PA, that are off the beaten path in the normal standup comedy circuit. Plus, if you’ve never met a Muslim, and let’s be honest, there’s only about 2% of them in the U.S. population, this show will supply the Muslims and the laughs in equal measure. The show also aims to provide a little boost of energy in what is a beleaguered election cycle. The Swing State Invasion will also be taped for Farsad’s upcoming sequel to The Muslims Are Coming! tentatively titled, The Expanded Bigotryverse for which she is again joining forces with the incomparable producer and comedian Dean Obeidallah (host of Sirius XM’s The Dean Obeidallah Show).
The show is free, but an RSVP is needed. You can do that here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-muslims-are-coming-swing-state-invasion-tickets-1016256870657?aff=oddtdtcreator.
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