1 hr 47 min
Ep 58 w/ Fuad Saif: How To Get Into Stand-Up, Personality Duality, & Learning As A Father This A Podcast
-
- Society & Culture
Mek talks with Fuad Saif about comedy, writing, growing up in Egypt, and more. In 103 minutes, you’ll hear about:
- A lifelong love of comedy and telltale signs of a successful comic
- How Fuad ended up on a stage doing stand-up for the first time and what he’s learned thus far from the experience
- The surprisingly most influential comedian in Fuad’s life
- Feeling the crowd and ways of getting them more involved in a stand-up performance
- Difference for him between comedic writing and other writing and the feedback he received
- Being born on Christmas Day and moving to Egypt for a few years at the age of 10
- Experiencing the culture shock, language barrier, and overt racism there and how soccer was a saving grace
- Learning and living with less after spending time in a developing country like Nigeria and Egypt
- Needing to unplug and sit with just your own thoughts for extended periods of time
- Twitter as the source of everything and the one app Fuad wouldn’t give up
- Trevor Noah and the duality of being a foreign-born black person in America
- Applying the “less is more” principle in writing and the reason why some don’t
- Fuad’s goals for the year, books that have had a big influence, and the American perception of being an African kid then and now
- Failure, its importance in preparing for life’s trials, and hustling for what you want from a young age
- Favorite comics and honorable mentions for Mek and Fuad (some surprising and others controversial)
- What Fuad has in common with Harry in Harry Potter, his to-the-point billboard message to the world, and more.
Bio
Fuad Saif is a writer who’s always loved comedy. Born into a family originally from Somalia, he’s spent the majority of his life as a Maryland resident, with the exception of living in Egypt during an important period of his life. He got into writing as a therapeutic outlet and is currently doing stand up on stages around the DMV, while writing a fictional miniseries dedicated to his mother called “Surviving the Cycle.”
Follow him on Instagram @homegrownimmigrant, Twitter at @blackmenwrite, or YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/fuadsaif123.
Links
Pray Often Clothing - Instagram @prayoftenclothing
Quiet by Susan Cain - https://www.quietrev.com/quiet-the-book/
Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92057.The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - https://www.chimamanda.com/book/americanah/
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27220736-shoe-dog
Mek talks with Fuad Saif about comedy, writing, growing up in Egypt, and more. In 103 minutes, you’ll hear about:
- A lifelong love of comedy and telltale signs of a successful comic
- How Fuad ended up on a stage doing stand-up for the first time and what he’s learned thus far from the experience
- The surprisingly most influential comedian in Fuad’s life
- Feeling the crowd and ways of getting them more involved in a stand-up performance
- Difference for him between comedic writing and other writing and the feedback he received
- Being born on Christmas Day and moving to Egypt for a few years at the age of 10
- Experiencing the culture shock, language barrier, and overt racism there and how soccer was a saving grace
- Learning and living with less after spending time in a developing country like Nigeria and Egypt
- Needing to unplug and sit with just your own thoughts for extended periods of time
- Twitter as the source of everything and the one app Fuad wouldn’t give up
- Trevor Noah and the duality of being a foreign-born black person in America
- Applying the “less is more” principle in writing and the reason why some don’t
- Fuad’s goals for the year, books that have had a big influence, and the American perception of being an African kid then and now
- Failure, its importance in preparing for life’s trials, and hustling for what you want from a young age
- Favorite comics and honorable mentions for Mek and Fuad (some surprising and others controversial)
- What Fuad has in common with Harry in Harry Potter, his to-the-point billboard message to the world, and more.
Bio
Fuad Saif is a writer who’s always loved comedy. Born into a family originally from Somalia, he’s spent the majority of his life as a Maryland resident, with the exception of living in Egypt during an important period of his life. He got into writing as a therapeutic outlet and is currently doing stand up on stages around the DMV, while writing a fictional miniseries dedicated to his mother called “Surviving the Cycle.”
Follow him on Instagram @homegrownimmigrant, Twitter at @blackmenwrite, or YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/fuadsaif123.
Links
Pray Often Clothing - Instagram @prayoftenclothing
Quiet by Susan Cain - https://www.quietrev.com/quiet-the-book/
Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92057.The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - https://www.chimamanda.com/book/americanah/
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27220736-shoe-dog
1 hr 47 min