Hamburger

Imad Kehdy builds his debut hour around the logic of someone who grew up poor enough that a home invasion turns into a business arrangement: when a masked burglar points a gun at his head, Kehdy suggests splitting whatever cash they can find fifty-fifty, and the thief winds up living with him and his mother for two weeks. Elsewhere in the set, Kehdy recalls being interrogated at school by a gendarmerie psychologist over roosters before casually mentioning his father is dead, breaks down Lebanese school tuition fees so steep that families can only afford to put their kids on the bus, and jokes about trying to pay half a supermarket bill in exposure because that is how local stand-ups get compensated. Filmed during his 2024 tour and released on YouTube by Beirut underground comedy platform awk.word in May 2026, the 63-minute special mixes live stage footage with off-stage travel clips. Kehdy first tried stand-up with awk.word at age 30 and gained attention through satirical online characters before launching the show in April 2023. By the time the run wrapped in early 2025, he had performed the hour across the Arab world and Europe, with stops including Amman, Dubai, Riyadh, Berlin, London, and Paris, selling over 15,000 tickets before moving on to a new Arabic special in 2026.