Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer cover image

I got 99 problems... palsy is just one (w/ Maysoon Zayid)

Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer

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The Worst Story Ever

In 2002, a year after 9 11, I did a PBS special called Arab Americans Stand Up. The view invited me and my partner in comedy crime, Dean Obidala onto the show to talk about our appearance. They bumped me and they replaced me with a Muslim woman comic who had been on stage three times whose entire routine was stripping off a job and throwing it behind the couch. She did that. And I was never invited back again. It's not that they're afraid of the jobs. Like there is just a piece of fucking clothing. No, no, no. You know what you got to do. Well, if there's any of you producers who are listening to this

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