Item Description
The Resistance Package contains work by benefit honoree
Negin Farsad.
The package contains:
Nerdcore Rising DVD, (Negin's first feature comedy, starring Weird Al Yankovic, Brian Posehn, and a bunch of other nerds). Value; $22.00
The Muslims Are Coming! DVD (feature documentary comedy by Negin & Dean, starring Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, Janeane Garofalo, David Cross and a bunch of Muslims) Valuez; $22.00
How to Make White People Laugh - written by Negin, a memoir-meets-social-justice-comedy-manifesto called "frank & hilarious" by Salon, "hilarious & important" by NPR - value $28.00
About Negin:
Negin Farsad was named one of the Funniest Women of 2015 by Huffington Post, named one of the 10 Best Feminist Comedians by Paper Magazine, and was selected as a TEDFellow for her work in social justice comedy. She is the author of the recently released How to Make White People Laugh, a memoir-meets-social-justice-comedy manifesto (published by Grand Central/Hachette). Farsad is host of Fake the Nation, a political comedy round-table podcast on the Earwolf network. She is also the director/writer/star of the romantic comedy 3rd Street Blackout, starring Janeane Garofalo, Ed Weeks from the Mindy Project, and John Hodgman, released summer 2016. She has written for/appeared on Comedy Central, MTV, PBS, IFC, Nickelodeon and others. She is co-director/producer of the feature films The Muslims Are Coming! starring Jon Stewart, David Cross and Lewis Black and Nerdcore Rising starring Weird Al Yankovic (both available wherever movies are streamed/downloaded). She has written good-old fashioned articles for The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Indiewire, Wiredco and others. As part of The Muslims Are Coming! she sued New York State’s MTA over the right to put up funny posters about Muslims and WON. She started her comedy career as a Cornell and Columbia-educated policy advisor for the City of New York.
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