Azhar Usman
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Usman during the 2007 Allah Made Me Funny Tour in Dublin
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| Birth name | Azhar Muhammad Usman |
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December 23, 1975 Skokie, Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Medium | Stand-up, Television, Film |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Genres | Observational comedy, Character comedy, Sketch comedy, Improvisational comedy |
| Subject(s) | Islamic humour, Islamophobia, War on Terror, Indian culture, Political humour, Islam in the United States, Multiculturalism, Culture, Human interaction |
| Website | www |
Azhar Muhammad Usman (Urdu: اظہر محمد عثمان; born December 23, 1975) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and film producer of Indian descent. He is a former lecturer, community activist and lawyer and has been referred to as the "Ayatollah of Comedy" and "Bin Laughin". He is best known as one third of comedy trio Allah Made Me Funny.
Usman was born in Chicago and as a child lived in mostly Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois, United States. In the 1970s, Usman's veterinarian father Zia Usman (a graduate of Aligarh Muslim University) and housewife mother Atiya Usman left Bihar, India and emigrated to the United States.
In 1993, Usman graduated from Niles West High School in Skokie, Illinois. In 1996, he graduated with a BA degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and in 1999 a Juris Doctorate in Law from the University of Minnesota Law School. He co-founded an Internet startup, then practiced law, and then started performing stand-up comedy.
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