Malik Elassal
Birthday: Born in 1996-04-12 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Deathday: Alive
Malik Elassal (Arabic: مالك العسال) is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actor of Lebanese descent. He began performing stand-up comedy shortly after graduating from the Calgary Islamic School. In 2022, he was named one of the New Faces of Comedy at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal. He recorded the title track on Yeehaw Hell Yeah, a comedy album released by Just For Laughs. He appeared on Season 3 of 'The New Wave of Standup’ on CBC Gem in 2023. He was featured on the Vulture (website) list of Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2024. He had television roles in Resident Alien, Joe Pickett, Fortunate Son, and Fakeland. He was an extra on the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar. He portrays Samir in the FX comedy series Adults (originally developed under the name Snowflakes), created by The Tonight Show writers Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, and executive produced by Nick Kroll. The series follows five housemates in Queens, New York, but was filmed in Toronto.
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Adults
Character: Samir Rahman
A group of twenty-somethings in New York trying to be good people, despite being neither "good" nor "people" yet....
After Midnight
Character: Self
Celebrated comedian Taylor Tomlinson hosts the smartest show on television about the dumbest things on the internet alongside a panel of guests from the worlds of entertainment, comedy, music, and beyond....
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Dream Interpreter
Character: Barista
After a series of bizarre dreams, a man turns to a computer program to decipher them....
Sally
Character: Mark
Mark has been in a 8 year long domestic relationship with Sally. Mark wakes up one morning to discover that he has literally bored Sally to death. Desperate to bring her back, Mark begins putting an effort into the relationship again to make it work, even though she is dead....
Malik Elassal: Woke Flat Earthers
Character: Self
Malik Elassal’s standup special in 2025....