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THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAY 8 - MAY 14
American-born Lebanese-Palestinian comedian Sammy Obeid came out of college as a Business and Mathematics major.
Sammy Obeid American-born Lebanese-Palestinian comedian Sammy Obeid came out of college as a Business and Mathematics major. Nevertheless, a finance career apparently wasn't in the cards once he turned down a gig at Google to pursue his possibilities as a comedian.
Fortunately, despite some early setbacks, he eventually scored success. Aside from hosting the unusual Netflix comedy/reality series 100 Humans and appearing on such shows as Last Comic Standing , America's Got Talent and Conan , he became known as a marathon man of sorts when he set a world record streak of performing live comedy…
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