LA Stand-Up Gets Ready to Kill in Cairo

Ronnie Khalil (pictured), who launched LA’s annual Middle Eastern Comedy Festival in the fall of 2009, is taking punch line diplomacy to a whole new level.

On July 6th, he will be in Cairo to headline “Freedom of Funny,” billed as the first major stand-up comedy show in Cairo since the revolution. Khalil actually performed several underground shows in the city just a few weeks before the uprisings, and says he has big plans for his upcoming gig at the El

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