EXCLUSIVE: Rising comic Paul Elia has set a Christmas Eve premiere date for his debut particular, Detroit Participant, the primary ever shot on the Detroit Home of Comedy, which got here collectively over the course of three October tapings. Directed by Elia’s longtime good friend Dan Ringey, with whom he beforehand collaborated on the indie crime thriller Soiled, the particular shall be obtainable for a month on Mint Comedy.
Elia got here to shoot his particular after spending years performing stand-up in lots of unlikely (and awkward) eventualities, in an effort to pay his hire. He carried out in a Dubai mall (and virtually bought arrested). Quickly after, he carried out at a non-public occasion for Saudi royalty (once more, virtually getting detained). With Detroit Participant, he explores authenticity, censorship and what it means to “hustle” (whereas avoiding arrests overseas).
Hailing from The LowKey Firm & Avesta Leisure, the particular is produced by Bassem Youssef, Azhar Usman and Danny Mooney. Exec producers are Christina Shams and Matt Rife. Elia’s new hour was independently financed with assist from pals and supporters together with Mint Comedy, Assyrian American Nationwide Federation, and his childhood good friend Nawras Najor’s dental workplace, Devoted Dental, amongst others. In preparation for the tapings, he went on the highway with longtime good friend Rife, hitting quite a few cities throughout the U.S.
An L.A.-based humorist, actor, and content material creator initially from Detroit, Michigan, Elia is maybe finest recognized for showing in over a dozen sketches on TBS’s Conan, in addition to on such acclaimed sequence as Ramy and Girl Dynamite. At present, he’s a sequence common in longtime good friend and former roommate Ramy Youssef’s Amazon/A24 animated sequence #1 Completely happy Household USA, which is predicted to premiere subsequent yr.
An Iraqi-American artist with over 240,000+ followers on TikTok, Elia produced Rife’s specials Pure Choice and Matthew Steven Rife after serving as an affiliate producer on his debut particular, Solely Followers. He’s in any other case finest recognized for his internet sequence Roommates co-starring comic Ian Edwards, and for Lowkey Exterior, his and Rife’s indie L.A. comedy present birthed in the course of the coronavirus pandemic, in response to the halting of stay leisure. Beforehand, the present has been featured on The Tonight Present, in addition to at Netflix is a Joke Fest, the Dubai Comedy Pageant and Simply For Laughs.
Elia is repped by Avesta Leisure.
