How to Make White People Laugh
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Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who believes she can change the world through jokes. And yes, sometimes that includes fart jokes. In this candid and uproarious book, Farsad shares her personal experiences growing up as the "other" in an American culture that has no time for nuance. In fact, she longed to be black and/or Mexican at various points of her youth, you know, like normal kids. Right? RIGHT?
Writing bluntly and hilariously about the elements of race we are often too politically correct to discuss, Farsad takes a long hard look at the iconography that still shapes our concepts of "black," "white," and "Muslim" today-and what it means when white culture defines the culture. Farsad asks the important questions like, What does it mean to have a hyphenated identity? How can we actually combat racism, stereotyping, and exclusion? Do Iranians get bunions at a higher rate than other ethnic groups? (She's asking for a friend.)
How to Make White People Laugh tackles these questions with wit, humor, and incisive intellect. And along the way, you might just learn a thing or two about tetherball, Duck Dynasty, and wine slushies.
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Negin Farsad. (2016). How to Make White People Laugh. Grand Central Publishing.
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She has written for and appeared on Comedy Central, MTV, PBS, IFC, Nickelodeon, and others. She is director/producer of the feature films Nerdcore Rising starring Weird Al Yankovic and The Muslims Are Coming! starring Jon Stewart, David Cross, and Lewis Black (both available on Netflix). Her film 3rd Street Blackout, starring Janeane Garofalo and Ed Weeks, was released in 2016. - name: Negin Farsad
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- From the acclaimed writer, director, and star of the hit documentary The Muslims are Coming! comes a memoir in essays about growing up Iranian-American in a post-9/11 world and the power of comedy to combat racism.
Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who believes she can change the world through jokes. And yes, sometimes that includes fart jokes. In this candid and uproarious book, Farsad shares her personal experiences growing up as the "other" in an American culture that has no time for nuance. In fact, she longed to be black and/or Mexican at various points of her youth, you know, like normal kids. Right? RIGHT?
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Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who believes she can change the world through jokes. And yes, sometimes that includes fart jokes. In this candid and uproarious book, Farsad shares her personal experiences growing up as the "other" in an American culture that has no time for nuance. In fact, she longed to be black and/or Mexican at various points of her youth, you know, like normal kids. Right? RIGHT?
Writing bluntly and hilariously about the elements of race we are often too politically correct to discuss, Farsad takes a long hard look at the iconography that still shapes our concepts of "black," "white," and "Muslim" today-and what it means when white culture defines the culture. Farsad asks the important questions like, What does it mean to have a hyphenated identity? How can we actually combat racism, stereotyping, and exclusion? Do Iranians get bunions at a higher rate than other ethnic groups? (She's asking for a friend.)
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April 11, 2016
This collection of nonfiction essays from Farsad, a stand-up comedian and director/producer of the documentary The Muslims Are Coming!, offers a look at the social issues that plague America today, including racism, sexism, and media bias. Farsad tackles these ideas head-on with clear facts and a wit that will keep the liberal reader engaged. Using her own experiences as an Iranian-American, Farsad offers a glimpse at what life is like as a “third thing,” or a group that doesn’t quite fit into one world or another, from her Palm Springs, Fla., childhood, where she tried to identify as Mexican, to her collegiate years at Cornell, where she identified more with black culture. The comic hits her stride when she focuses on the personal rather than polemic. The insight that Farsad offers regarding modern Iranian life is much more nuanced than her quick takes on more general topics, such as Jainism. Farsad’s fresh and funny voice is perfect for presenting tactics to fight anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S., and her work is intriguing and enjoyable to read. Agent: Daniel Kirschen, ICM.
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A memoir/essay collection from a self-described "hyphenated American...an Iranian-Muslim-female-honey-mustard-enthusiast" who is also a comedian, writer, filmmaker, and TED talker. Such range and accomplishment suggest that Farsad might well have a rich and provocative book in her, but this scattershot debut isn't it. Toward the end, Farsad describes her work as "social justice comedy," though some of the most scathingly funny comedy today could fit that label without wearing it. Unlike plenty of books by stand-up comedians, this isn't simply a series of bits or monologues transferred to the page. The author has some serious points to make about stereotypes and icons and about the many like her who are left in the margins amid "the binary discussion of race." Her book takes its title from one of her TED talks, and it's a title that would seem to suggest a black author--a symptom of the disease that afflicts the nation's concept of diversity. Some of the most engaging sections are those that are closest to memoir, in which Farsad discusses growing up as a minority to other minorities, identifying with Mexicans because they were the closest match for the sole Iranian-American. "Just as I considered myself Mexican in high school," she writes, "in college I began shifting my sights to being black." The author came to realize that wherever she found herself fitting, she has also been marginalized by gender, by the assumption that a woman couldn't be funny enough to be a comedian or smart enough to be a writer. Devoting herself to toppling such stereotypes, she finds strongest resistance to her work from those who, like her, are Muslim women. "My material isn't racier than the average comic's, not by a long shot," she writes. "But to that Muslim minority, in the audience, it was shameful." Farsad combines throwaway laughs with some keeper insights. Readers may sense that she has a smarter, funnier book on the way later in her career.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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More than a memoir of growing up Muslim after 9/11, this book by Farsad, an Iranian American female comedian perhaps best known for the hit documentary The Muslims Are Coming!, goes where others have not dared by considering how concepts such as black, brown, and Muslim work in a society still defined by its whiteness.
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Filmmaker and TED fellow Farsad, an Iranian American Muslim woman and child of immigrants, knows what it's like to grow up other, without icons and pop-culture representatives on TV or in movies with which to identify. A lifetime of observation and a couple of Ivy-League degrees later, Farsad has cultivated what she calls social justice comedy in her stand-up and films, because she thinks nothing competes with humor when it comes to exposing and leveling society's inequities. Having held varied jobs and seen much of the country (she was chased out of at least one backwoods, bare-knuckle boxing ring on her The Muslims Are Coming! comedy tour), Farsad has ideas for bringing diversity to media, academia, and corporations. Her style is casual and irreverent but also earnest; she dedicates her formidable smarts and talents to improving the country she loves dearly, through this cutting yet gentle medium. Lots of funny images and charts break up the text as Farsad explores identity and culture, especially for the many multiculturalists among us, in a relatable way.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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