Yalla Habibis!

Arab-American standup comedians Lynn Maleh and Gena B. Jones

Featured on Netflix Is A Joke Fest and Arab News, Hilarious Habibis is the PREMIER stand-up comedy showcase featuring Arab and MENA (Middle Eastern/North African) comics in Los Angeles.

The show aims to bring together a diverse group of artists and audiences to laugh about everything, from brown parent trauma and cultural hiccups to AMC commercials and lube.

Produced by Los Angeles-based Arab-American comedians Lynn Maleh (TV Writer, Fox) and Gena B. Jones (Regular, The Hollywood Improv), Hilarious Habibis lends a definitively FEMALE voice to the Arab/MENA comedy landscape.

Meet Your Hosts

Called "up-and-coming" by the Los Angeles Times, Lynn Maleh is an Arab-American standup comedian and TV writer whose last name means salty, which she is.
She’s previously written for Universal Basic Guys on FOX, Act Your Age on Netflix, The Onion, Reductress, and McSweeney’s. She's performed on Netflix Is A Joke Fest, New York Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, and a few times in Brad Pitt’s old backyard.
Her podcast CleoPODtra was featured in NPR and named “New & Noteworthy” by Apple Podcasts, and she co-created and co-produces Hilarious Habibis, The Hollywood Improv’s first ever standup showcase, featuring Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African comics.

Gena is a Syrian-Mexican-American comedian, writer and show producer based in Los Angeles.
She’s currently a regular at the Hollywood Improv, the Westside Comedy Theater, The Crow, and a plethora of indie venues around LA. At the Improv, she co-produces Hilarious Habibis, a quarterly standup showcase that exclusively features Middle Eastern talent. The show was recently featured in the New York Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, the LA Times, and AlAraby TV.
Gena performs comedy several times a week and you can catch her doing sets at major clubs around town as well as in various bars, cafes, garages, attics, basements, and back-alleys. Hope you’re into that!

We’ve Got Press

Hilarious Habibis was featured on Al-Araby TV and Arab News and written about in the LA Times, Philadelphia Weekly, Discover Los Angeles, Culture LA, The Comedy Bureau, In The Know LA, Do LA, Between East, and more.