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Comedy Dynamics · 2019 · 41 min
An Iranian Southern Baptist recounts his strangely complicated family tree.
Released , on Comedy Dynamics.
Moody Molavi gets his best material out of a genuine domestic oddity: he married his high school girlfriend, only for their widowed parents to marry each other years later, legally making his wife his stepsister. Combined with the cultural clash of growing up as an Iranian Southern Baptist in Tennessee, he builds his set around family confusion and provincial friction.
Taped at the Dry Bar Comedy club in Provo, Utah, and released in late 2019, the 41-minute set caught Molavi in the middle of transitioning from Chattanooga emcee gigs to touring theaters. Playing to a strict clean-comedy brief, he pushes through high-energy bits about middle-seat airplane etiquette, mispronounced foreign names, and the awkward indignity of a colonoscopy.
The clips generated millions of social media views, cementing Molavi on the regional club and corporate circuits.
Notable bits & set list
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Marrying his high school sweetheart who later became his stepsister
Explores the bizarre dynamic of marrying his high school sweetheart, who subsequently became his stepsister when their respective parents married each other.
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Being the only Iranian Baptist he knows
Comedic reflections on the cultural and religious crossover of his unique identity.
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Celiac disease
How it plays
- On stage
- Christian comic
- About
- marriage and family, being an Iranian Baptist, celiac disease
Backstory
Moody Molavi is the only Iranian Baptist he knows and his comedy reflects that cultural and religious crossover. In his personal life, he married his high school sweetheart, who later became his stepsister when their parents married each other.
Details
- Released
- Runtime
- 41 min
- Where
- Comedy Dynamics
- Director
- Aaron Stephenson
- Topics
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