Maz Jobrani was born in Iran and emigrated to the United States when he was six.  He was part of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour whose DVD is out.  He also do solo touring and has been on the Tonight Show as well.

He has some middle eastern comedy acts in his skits, but they are all done in good taste.  In fact, he wants to dispel some of the Middle Eastern stereo-types.  He says, just once he wants to see an Middle Easterner on TV doing regular things (like baking a cookie)…

On NPR interview with Terry Gross, Maz talked about his acting career and how he was on the hit TV show “24″.  Maz Jobrani attended University of California at Berkeley and even enrolled in the PhD program in UCLA.  His mother had wanted him to become a doctor, lawyer — okay, or say car mechanic (instead of acting).

Maz is well-known enough to be on Wikipedia.  More about Maz Jobrani and his tour schedule on his website.

If you have worked in an office, you know what it is like to have a co-worker comes in sick. This animated Dilbert cartoon shows this humourously.

David Pogue, New York Times columnist, starts off with a funny song about tech support. Before the talk has ended he also did a funny “Bill Gates Song” and another funny song on Steve Jobs. The rest of his talk is quite funny too as he shows why people like simplicity and as he shows examples of the opposite.

This great animation was by Alan Becker. The original is at alanbecker.deviantart.com where he mentioned that it took him three months to do.

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Here is a funny conversation between Alan Greenspan and David Letterman. Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, tries to explains to Letterman what his role is when he was in that position. And I think he did a good job explaining it.

I always like to hear Alan Greenspan speak. Because as he says himself, “I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said”.

Alan Greenspan’s memoir is The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

In this hilarious speech, Tim Gard starts out explaining why he like flying and his comic vision. He ends with chicken feet.

John Maeda, author of The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life), give this very funny talk at TED.

Daniel Gilbert, author of the book Stumbling on Happiness, claims that the “impact bais” causes people to over-estimate the amount that events will affect people’s happiness. Gilbert is a psychology professor at Harvard University. He suggests that “synthetic happiness” is just as good as “authentic happiness”.

Funny music video jokingly answers the age-old question, “What if God had a MySpace account?”

Humorous performance by Ze Frank at TED. He starts with a paradoy of an money mule spam email followed by playing on Google. He makes use of the screen to give humorous twists to his words.

For humor only. This is not a real event nor a real broadcast. It is a funny parody found on the internet about the internet.