From Bethesda Magazine: Holy Humor

The Interfaith Comedy troupe to perform in MoCo on Feb. 2

January 30, 2025 3:00 p.m. | Updated: January 22, 2025 10:06 a.m.

A Jew, a Muslim and a Christian walk into a comedy club. If it sounds like the setup to a joke, well, it sort of is. On Feb. 2, members of the Interfaith Comedy troupe will perform at Give A Hoot Comedy Club located inside La Mexicana restaurant in Gaithersburg. Stand-up comedians of different faiths will poke fun at their own religions (no one else’s). 

Interfaith Comedy founder Carmiya Weinraub (pictured above) says the comedy is clean and the idea is to use humor to foster understanding and combat bias. The target audience is adults. The group’s first comedy show was in 2022; the February performance will be its 20th.

In addition to Weinraub, the show’s lineup includes Shahryar Rizvi, Sofia Javed, Anna Tirat-Gefen, Jason Fliegel, Aure Stewart and Nikkie Knowles. Three of the comedians live in Montgomery County. Together, the comedians scheduled to perform represent the Muslim, Jewish, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and nondenominational Christian faiths. The comedy set is followed by a Q&A session in which audience members can pose questions to the comedians.

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giveahootcomedy.com/shows/283766; interfaithcomedy.com

This appears in the January/February 2025 issue of Bethesda Magazine.

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