A thousand words

My sister and I decided to go and attend a comedy movie and "A Thousand Words" was the only movie available to watch.

It was less of a comedy and more of a drama, which revolving about inner self search, family ties and how to get over anger, and amendment with self and others. It's all about forgiveness from heart and soul and move on with life by opening new chapter, it's also about maturity and not only thinking about our selves but others too.

Russell Peters on St. Patrick's Day!

Yes, Russell Peters performed a stand up comedy show for the first time in Oman on St. Patrick's Day, the auditorium is almost full, and people are still pouring in to see him.

People were looking for tickets to see the Anglo-Indian performance, allot of people were looking for re-sale tickets, people from different age, nationalities were moved.

I didn't see any of Russell's stand up shows, so I didn't know how he was, I just went to change the atmosphere and to enjoy the company. I bumped into allot of people, was happy to see and meet new people.

Russell write's up pg 15 and I didn't know how censored it will going to be, for Oman, a was a bit embarrassing even for liberal minded people, as it was not part of our culture to openly joke about sexual topics.

Despite all that, people enjoyed it, and hoping for more entertainment events, not like someone said while walking out the avenue after the show ended "Will wait for another show after 3 years". Please prove him wrong.

I walked out of 'Funny People'

Yesterday, I was invited for Iftaar (breakfast) at Shang Tai resturent, had a great meal, which was fullfilling and didn't feel stuffed like I always felt since the first day of fasting.

Most of the food, which is been cooked in my home and other houses I invited my self to have Iftaar was too havey because of the amount of oil is been used in most of the meals, which I concider it unhealthy.

back to were I stopped, after the Iftaar, my sister and I decided to go for a movie, we drove to the nearest cinema, and bought two tickets to watch 'Funny People', which started 10 minites after arriving to the cinema, before we purchased the tickets my sister said she didn't come across the movie's ads, even in the TV, and so am I, we knew its a comedy, that's why we chose it.

We set at our located seats and the movie started rolling, 40 mins passed and we walked out of the movie, after spending 6 Omani Rials for sexsual commedy comments of 'C', 'F' and 'D' from begining to end, its Ramadhan and where are the athority for letting such movie to run all over the country during the holy month? Does the athority understand the English language or they just sense phisical sexual content not the verbal content?

I don't think people will react much or make a big fuss, as most of people won't go to cinemas in Ramadhan.'

Free Stand up comedy workshop in Oman and audition for spot in our shows!

Are you funny? Have you ever thought about trying to do stand up comedy? Have you ever dreamed of performing in a big stand up comedy show?

Then you should attend the Free Stand up comedy workshop and audition that will be held in Muscat, Oman on June 1!

Assuming enough people respond to this email that they are interested, I will be teaching a free stand up comedy workshop with my friend and fellow comedian Amer Zahr. We will teach the basics of stand up comedy - such as joke writing, performing, how to break into the world of stand up comedy, etc.

After our workshop- which will last about an hour-we will hold auditions hoping to find a few people to perform as opening acts in our upcoming big shows in Muscat which will be held June 2, 3 and 5.

You are very welcome to just attend the workshop even if you do not want to audition. If you do want to audition, then start planning your 5 minute audition set!

If you are interested in attending the workshop or auditioning, please email me back on Facebook to this account and indicate if you want to audition or just attend the workshop. (Or you can email me at Dean@deanofcomedy.com)

I will send an email next week on Facebook announcing if the workshop will be going forward and the location and time.

We really hope enough people are interested in attending and hopefully auditioning - I promise you it will be fun and educational at the same time. Maybe this will be the beginning of a career in stand up comedy for some people!

I hope to hear from you!!

Also for more details about our upcoming shows in Oman (June 2,3 and 5) featuring comedians Amer Zahr, Nemr Abou Nassar and myself, please visit: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=72494649484&ref=ts

Thanks,
Dean Obeidallah
http://www.deanofcomedy.com