Best Comedian on the Verge of Superstardom

Stand-up wunderkind ISMAEL LOUTFI took fourth place at the 2016 Laughing Skull Comedy Festival and was recently one of the New Faces at this year’s Just For Laughs comedy fest in Montreal. The self-proclaimed “sweet boy” floods the stage with charm, intelligence, and poise. Besides the musings of your average 23-year-old, such as analyzing the absurd marketing strategies of strip clubs and getting terrible tips at work, Loutfi uses his razor-sharp wit to tackle Islamophobia. He paints an awkward portrait of the conflicting emotions he faces living as a Muslim in America, such as finding himself compelled to correct an open mic-er’s wrong racist myth to the correct racist myth. With the social commentary savvy of “The Daily Show” and the likability of your next-door neighbor, Loutfi points out the absurdity in our culture not with biting ridicule, but with a playful knock on the shoulder. www.twitter.com/Ismaelian. less...