Naveed Mahbub
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| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
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Naveed Mahbub is a Bangladeshi comedian and columnist. He was awarded Best Male Comedian in the 2007 Las Vegas Comedy Festival.[2] In 2016, Mahbub was featured in US-based comedy television channel Comedy Central. He hosts a morning radio show, Good Morning Bangladesh, on ABC Radio.[3] He writes articles on the newspaper The Daily Star.[4]
Education[]
Mahbub passed SSC from Government Laboratory High School, Dhaka, HSC from Dhaka College and completed his bachelor's in electrical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and master's from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.[2] While he was an MBA student at the University of California, Berkeley, he took a course in the Sandi Shore's Standup Comedy Workshop.[2]
Career[]
For 13 years, Mahbub served as an engineer at Ford Motor Company, Kyocera Wireless and Qualcomm in the United States and the CEO of IBM and Nokia Siemens Networks Bangladesh.[2][5]
Mahbub had performed as a stand-up comic in the United States in the 2000s. He returned to Bangladesh in 2009. He founded the country's first comedy club, Naveed's Comedy Club in 2010.[6]
Since June 2012, Mahbub hosted a late night television talk show "Grameenphone Presents – The Naveed Mahbub Show".[7]
He acted in a small role in the film You Don't Mess with the Zohan, featuring Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider.[2]
Books[]
- Humorously Yours and Counting (2015)[8]
Personal life[]
He married Zara Mahbub in 1998. They have two daughters, Zaina and Maryam.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b "Zara Jabeen Mahbub: A banker with passion". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Mahboob, Mahdin (March 7, 2008). "Naveed Mahbub and his stand-up comedy". Retrieved October 21, 2016.
- ^ "Naveed Mahbub on Comedy Central". The Daily Star. October 22, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
- ^ "Naveed Mahbub". The Daily Star. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
- ^ "Naveed Mahbub". The Daily Star. June 16, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
- ^ Ditan, Tanziral (August 11, 2015). "Thank God It's Friday". The Daily Star. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
- ^ "The Naveed Mahbub Show on ntv". The Daily Star. June 1, 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
- ^ "Dhaka Lit Fest begins". The Daily Star. November 20, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
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