TEDxAjman - Fahad Al Butairi - Haha, Wait, what? December 20, 2011

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Fahad Albutairi was one of the first Saudi stand-up comedians to appear on stage professionally in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and in the Gulf region. As of recent, he has also become a well-known YouTube personality.
Born in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, in 1985, his debut as a stand-up comedian was in
October, 2008, opening for American comedians Ahmed Ahmed and Maz Jobrani in Bahrain alongside a host of other local comedians as part of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour.
Fahad has, since then, shared the stage with a handful of renowned international comedians such as Gabriel Iglesias, Edwin San Juan, Sebastian Maniscalco, Bobby Lee, Erik Griffin, Dean Edwards, Angelo Tsarouchas, Aron Kader, Kuwaiti comedian Tarek Al-Ali and Dean Obeidallah. So far, he has performed in Dubai, Doha, Amman, Riyadh, Khobar, Jeddah, Dhahran, Beirut, Sana'a and New York. Albutairi has also participated in the 2009 "Be a Part of the Amman Stand-up Comedy Festival" Competition and won first place out of 65 contestants that year in the English-speaking category.
On March 18th, 2010, Fahad took part in Yemen's first-ever stand-up comedy showcase along with fellow Saudi comedians Khalid Khalifa, Ibraheem Alkhairallah and Arab-American comedian Ahmed Ahmed. He also took part in the "New Faces of Arab Comedy" showcase at the 2010 New York Arab-American Comedy Festival and was one of the "New Faces" to be chosen for the "Best of the Fest" night of the festival.
On October 10th, 2010, Fahad Albutairi started his own YouTube-based show entitled La Yekthar Show, which is a Saudi colloquial term that roughly translates to "that's enough out of you." He started the YouTube channel with fellow Saudi comedian Ibraheem Alkhairallah and Saudi directors Ali Kalthami and Alaa Yoosef. So far, it has been the fastest growing Saudi Arabian YouTube channel, getting more than 4,000 subscribers in its first month and is currently the most subscribed Saudi channel on YouTube with more than 20,000 subscribers.
Fahad is also one of the top 10 most-followed Saudis on Twitter and has over 15,000 fans on Facebook.

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