Stand Up Comedy Bio
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 15 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 recently 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.
Ali took his solo show Muslim Interrupted to Scotland to perform at the world's largest comedy festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The show also ran at the Just for Laughs in Montreal and on to over 30 cities across Canada, receiving accolades and an enormous amount of press coverage along the way.
In the fall 2022, Ali will be part of Just for Laughs Toronto and will start 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.
As of Winter 2021, Ali is also part of the teaching faculty at Queens University, teaching Introduction to Stand-Up Comedy in the DAN School of Drama.
