Arab-American Comedians Dean Obeidallah and Maysoon Zayid, the co-founders
of the annual New York Arab-American Comedy Festival, are coming to the
Orlando Improv for one special show on Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 8:00 PM.
This will be the first ever all Arab-American stand up comedy show in Florida.

Dean and Maysoon have recently been featured on CNN's "Wolf Blitzer
Reports," and CNN's "Inside The Middle East." They also co-host a radio show
in NYC on WBAI 99.5FM which presents Arab-American artists. Dean and Maysoon have
performed comedy together across the United States as well as in Beirut and
Ramallah in the Middle East.

Maysoon Zayid was recently featured in a segment on Muslim comics on NBC's
"Nightly News" and she has been seen on MTV, "As the World Turns" and ABC's
"20/20." Maysoon also runs an art program for disabled and wounded
Palestinian refugee children. (For additional bio info please visit www.maysoon.com )

Dean Obeidallah has been seen on Comedy Central's "Tough Crowd," ABC's
"20/20," and he can be seen in the bonus material of the DVD version of
Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" in the section entitled "Arab-American comedians."
Dean has written jokes that have appeared on NBC's "Saturday Night Live's
Weekend Update" and CBS's "Late, Late Show. " (For more detailed bio info,
please visit www.deanofcomedy.com )

Dean and Maysoon created the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival in 2003
as a showcase for the talents of Arab-American actors, comics, playwrights
and filmmakers. The third annual Festival will take place over four nights n
New York City this November after overwhelming positive responses and sold
out performances in its first two years. It is the only festival in the country
that celebrates the comedy of Arab-Americans. www.Arabcomedy.org