Mohammed Amer
| Mohammed Amer | |
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Amer at a comedy show in Ramallah, Palestine in August 2016
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| Pseudonym | Mo Amer, Mohammed Najjar |
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July 24, 1981 Kuwait |
| Medium | Stand-up, Television, Film |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Genres | Observational comedy, Satire, Self-deprecation, Storytelling, Improvisational comedy, Character comedy |
| Subject(s) | Islamic humour, Islamophobia, Political satire, Family, Marriage, Racism, American immigration, Geopolitics, Refugees, Arab culture, Popular culture |
| Website | www |
Mohammed "Mo" Amer (Arabic: محمد عامر; born July 24, 1981) is an American stand-up comedian and writer of Palestinian descent. He is best known as one third of comedy trio Allah Made Me Funny.
Amer is of Palestinian descent, and the youngest of six children. Amer's father worked for a telecommunications engineer for the Kuwaiti Oil Co. In October 1990, at the age of nine, Amer, his sister, Haifa, his brother, Amer, and mother fled his birth country of Kuwait during the Gulf War. They emigrated to the United States and settled in Houston, Texas.
Two years later his father, a telecoms engineer, joined them in the United States. He attended private school at Piney Point Elementary while his older brothers studied overseas. His brother Omer is a pilot, another brother Amer (who later changed the family name to Najjar), has a PhD in biochemistry. In 1995, when Amer was 14 years old his father died.
Amer's elder brother took him to see Bill Cosby perform at the Houston Astrodome when he was 10 years old. At the age of 14, Amer discovered stand-up comedy at a Texas rodeo.
After the death of his father, Amer started playing truant and taking unsanctioned trips to Mexico with his friends. An English teacher made a deal with Amer that if he performed a monologue from William Shakespeare in front of her class, she would reinstate his grade before his truancy began and allow him to try comedy in front of the class every Friday. Amer graduated and focused on his passion. He then participated in and had leading roles in high school theatre, and started performing stand-up comedy by impersonating family members and developed it over a few years in the comedy club scene. Amer performed at Houston's comedy clubs as often as possible to refine his act while working a day job at a flag manufacturing company owned by a family friend.
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