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Maz Jobriani reads his hilarious and moving memoir of growing up Iranian in America and the pursuit to make it in Hollywood without having to wear a turban, tote a bomb, or get kicked in the facial skin by Chuck Norris. When he first started out in show business, Maz Jobrani endured suggestions that he add spice to his stand-up action by wearing "the outfit", fielded questions about increasing gas prices, and received called an F'in Eye-ranian for being mixed up in Iran hostage crisis even though he was only eight years of age at the time--in fact these exact things happened frequently that he began to wonder: Could I be a terrorist without even knowing it? Having emigrated along with his family to the U.S. during the Iranian Trend, Maz spent the majority of his youth desperately trying to fit in with his followed culture, whether that recommended learning to play baseball or religiously observing Dallas along with his female relatives. But nothing of his efforts at assimilation made a notable difference to casting directors, who auditioned him limited to the role of kebab-eating, bomb-toting, extremist psychopath. Within this laugh-out-loud memoir, Maz stocks his struggle to build an operating job in post-9/11 Hollywood, from playing a terrorist on 24 to playing a terrorist opposite Chuck Norris to his mom requesting, "Vhy you alvays terrorist?!" (Followed by, "Vhy you couldn't be doctor?!") But finally, through endurance, determination, and only the occasional unequivocal compromising of his ideas, he found a way to stardom. And he discovered the proper way to die such as a theif on TV.
