Fahad Albutairi
| Fahad Albutairi فهد البتيري |
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May 12, 1985 Khobar, Saudi Arabia |
| Medium | Stand-up, YouTube, film, television |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin |
| Years active | 2006 – present |
| Genres | Observational comedy, Satire, Character comedy, Improvisational comedy |
| Spouse | Loujain Alhathloul (m. 2014) |
Fahad Albutairi (Arabic: فهد البتيري; born May 12, 1985) is the first Saudi stand-up comedian to appear on stage professionally in Saudi Arabia and in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf. He is also an actor and a renowned YouTube personality.
Fahad Albutairi was born in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Albutairi began performing stand-up comedy as a student at the University of Texas at Austin, from which he graduated in December 2007. His first material dealt with his identity as a Saudi foreign student studying in post-9/11 America. He considers his real start to have been at the open mic nights at local comedy clubs in Austin. His debut as a stand-up comedian in the Arab World was on October 2, 2008, opening for Ahmed Ahmed and Maz Jobrani in Bahrain alongside a host of other local comedians as part of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour.
Since then, he has shared the stage with the likes of Gabriel Iglesias, Sebastian Maniscalco, Bobby Lee, Erik Griffin, Dean Edwards, Angelo Tsarouchas, Aron Kader and Dean Obeidallah. Albutairi performs regularly in Saudi Arabia. Although he was initially worried about how audiences in Saudi Arabia might receive stand-up comedy, his first performance in Saudi Arabia was in Riyadh in February 2009, which attracted over 1,200 audience members. On November 3, 2009, Albutairi was chosen out of 65 English-speaking contestants as the winner of the "Be a Part of the Amman Stand-up Comedy Festival 2009" Contest.
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