Past shows

April 12, 2008, KAM Isaiah Israel Synagogue (Charley Warady, Ray Hanania, Aaron Freeman)

April 1, 2008, Amnesty International and students of Trinity College/Dublin University in Dublin, Ireland

Tuesday April 1, 2008: Amnesty International, Dublin
-- April 1, Amnesty International, Dublin, Ireland.

Tuesday March 25, 2008: World Affairs Council, Houston
-- March 25, MON: World Affairs Council, Houston. Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. Get information on tickets and event?

Saturday March 22, 2008: Temple B'nai Yehuda Beth Shalom
-- March 22, SAT: Temple B'nai Yehuda Beth Shalom, Homewood, Illinois (Daytime humor panel, nighttime performance) 1424 W. 183rd Street. Featuring guest performer Sherif Hedayat ... Get information on tickets and event? View the promotional flyer from BYBS? Panel Punchlines for Peace -- 3 PM (open to the public). Show -- 7:30 PM tickets ate the door

March 12, 2008, Alliance for Middle East Peace,
Rayburn Office Building, Washington DC

-- March 12, WED: Washington DC, Alliance for Middle East Peace, ALLMEP View Promotional Flyer? ... Get more information on tickets and event?

March 10, 2008, Urbana Intersections Performance

-- March 10/11, MON/TUE: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Il ... Get information on the show by clicking this link.

Feb. 9 - 18, 2008 Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour College Tour
Hosted by MASA/Israel Journey
Feb. 9: University of Wisconsin, Madison: Overture Center for the Arts
Feb. 10: University of Chicago, Chicago:(View Poster?): PM Reynolds Club, Third Floor Theater
Feb. 11: University of Iowa, Iowa City: Englert Theatre
Feb. 12: Ohio State University, Columbus: Wexner Jewish Student Center
Feb. 13: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Michigan League Underground
Feb. 14: Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri: Brown Hall
Feb. 15-17: Limmud LA Conference Costa Mesa, California: Hilton Hotel, Orange County/Costa Mesa

Jan. 12, 2008: United States Debut

Sold Out show at Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, Illinois

BackStage with the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour
at Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies Jan. 12, 2008

Backstage with the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour
at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, Illinois,
Jan. 12, 2008. 30 Minutes.

December 2007 -- The Annapolis Peace Summit Tour, Israel & Palestine

Nov. 28-Dec. 9, 2007 -- Israel-Palestine 3rd Tour

Two shows at the Ambassador East Hotel in East Jerusalem, and one show at Or-Hadash in Haifa
Three performances at the new West Jerusalem Comedy Club, Off the Wall Comedy

YouTube Clips from Hanania and Hedayat's performances at
Off the Wall Comedy Club in Jerusalem: VIEW THE REPORT?

Yisrael Campbel, Sherif Hedayat, Ray Hanania, Charley Warady at the Ambassador Hotel, Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem. Two shows, Nov. 30/Dec. 1.
(Pictures from Dec. 1 show). The Nov. 30 show featured five additional comedians at an Open Mike, four Israelis including Benji, Luke, MC Deuce and Gil Yoran, and also a Palestinian Fadi.

Filmmaker Harvey Stein's Profile of Ray Hanania

We hosted two shows at the Ambassador Hotel in East Jerusalem. The first show included an open mike where five new Israeli and Palestinian comedians walked up to the mike and performed comedy under the banner of the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour.

 

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June 7-16, 2007 -- the (2nd) Return Tour

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Download/View PDF Flyer? ...
The Internationally Acclaimed Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour laughed its way through Israel and into the Palestinian areas (June 7 - 16, 2007)

• Downtown Tel Aviv, Seeds of Peace
• Beersheba
• Haifa (Or Hadash Synagogue)
• Ambassador Hotel, West Jerusalem (Sold Out)
• Raanan, Tel Aviv

May 29, 2007 -- The Toronto Show (1,200 plus audience at Roy Thomson Hall)

the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy "North American" Tour
May 29, 2007, Toronto, Canada

BLEW THE DOORS OFF OF ROY THOMSON HALL - 1,200 people cheering and applauding and laughing. Israelis, Jews, Palestinians and Arabs all cheering on one of the most spectacular comedy shows in North America. There is none other like it!

-- THE HOUR with GEORGE STROUMBOULOPOULOS
-- CANADIAN JEWISH TRIBUNE, 6-7-07 (PDF)
-- CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS REVIEW, 6-6-07 (or PDF)
-- TORONTO SUN NEWSPAPER, 5-29-07(or PDF)
-- TORONTO STAR NEWSPAPER, 5-28-07 (or PDF)
-- TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL FEATURE, 5-26-07(or PDF)
-- TORONTO'S NOW MAGAZINE, 5-24-07 (or PDF)
-- TORONTO STAR NEWSPAPER, 5-24-07 (or PDF)
-- CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS STORY, 5-24-07 (or PDF)

(Produced by Unique Lives)

Palestinian and Israelis together on the same stage? There is none other like it!

Jan. 24-Feb. 1, 2007 -- the First Tour

Wed. Jan. 24, 2007: The Syndrome Club, Jerusalem

Thur. Jan. 25, 2007: American Colony Hotel, Jerusalem

Friday, Jan. 26, 2007: The Anglican School, Jerusalem

Sat. Jan. 27, 2007: Tzavta Comedy Theater, Tel Aviv

Wed. Jan. 31, 2007: Kol HaNeshama, Jerusalem

(View photos below: Syndrome | American Colony | Anglican School | Tzavta | Kol HaNeshama)

How the Shows came about

The original intent of "The Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour" was to secure the Nobel Peace Prize for the organizers and stand-up comedians, Charley Warady and Ray Hanania. One day, when Warady (an American ex-pat stand-up comedian and an Israeli since 1996) and Hanania (a Palestinian-American stand-up comedian since forever) were talking, the topic came up that neither of them had the Nobel Peace Prize on their mantelpiece. Looking at their respective living rooms in opposite ends of the world, they both realized that neither of them had mantelpieces. Being insufferable pragmatists, they decided to take first things first and go for the Nobel Peace Prize, followed by the mantelpiece.

And so was born "The Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour".

(Thank you, ladies and gentlemen...we'll be here all week...don't forget to tip your waitress)

A Palestinian comedian and an Israeli comedian on the same stage. Pointing fingers at each other and instead of blaming...laughing. And pointing fingers at themselves and laughing. And pointing fingers in indiscriminate directions...and laughing. It's never been done before. But hopefully it won't be the last time, either. Beginning with shows in Israel, they plan on taking the show "on the road" for an American tour and wherever else they may be invited.

And to top it all off, Hanania enlisted the services of his friend and very funny stand-up comedian, Aaron Freeman. Not to be outdone, Warady begged his friend and brilliant stand-up comedian, Yisrael Campbell to join them. Freeman and Campbell add two entirely different dimensions to the already fiction-like premise of the evening.

But it's funny. The one thing Warady and Hanania agreed on from the outset: "...it's gotta be funny."

We don't care if people walk out of the show more tolerant than when they walked in. We don't care if people walk out of the show feeling that they've just witnessed something important. We want people to walk out of the show feeling happier than when they walked in.

After all...it's comedy!