Stand Up Comedy Bio

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Ali is a Canadian Comedy Award nominee who has also performed across Canada, in the US, the Middle East and in the UK. 

In his 20 year career as a stand up comedian, Ali has performed a number of times with the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and Toronto. His set on Comedy Night in Canada aired on television on CBC Gem.  Ali has also performed three times at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival - sets that have all aired on CBC television. 

Ali was also part of the Just for Laughs cross-country Comedy Night In Canada tour hosted by Rick Mercer, performing 23 shows across Canada over 25 days.  In 2026 he will host the JFL Road Show, touring across Ontario. 

Ali took his solo show Muslim Interrupted to Scotland to perform at the world's largest comedy festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  He then performed the show in over 30 cities across Canada, receiving accolades and an enormous amount of press coverage along the way. 

Recently, Ali started touring his brand new One Man Show Does This Taste Funny?, based on his 15 years in the restaurant industry as a chef, caterer and cooking instructor. 

In 2021, Ali also joined the faculty at Queens University, teaching Introduction to Stand-Up Comedy, and more recently Acting for the Screen at the DAN School of Drama & Music,