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EXCLUSIVE: Usama Siddiquee, nan Bengali-American comedian precocious named runner-up of Kevin Hart’s Funny AF, has inked pinch WME for practice successful each areas, pinch an oculus toward expanding opportunities successful touring, television, film, and digital.
Named to our December database of nan Stand-Ups to Keep an Eye On successful 2026, Siddiquee emerged arsenic 1 of nan most-discussed names of Netflix Is a Joke Fest 2026, pinch his activity successful nan first play of Hart’s Netflix drama title series.
Known for his high-energy, rapid-fire style, nan comedian’s enactment draws connected his experiences increasing up Muslim successful Texas, pinch worldly connected family dynamics, making love disasters, taste identity, and more. He released his first half-hour special, Usama Bin Laughin’, pinch Don’t Tell Comedy past year.
Siddiquee was named a Just For Laughs New Face successful 2018 and reached nan semifinals of America’s Got Talent in 2020. He made his late-night debut on The Late Show pinch Stephen Colbert in 2024.
As an actor, Siddiquee has appeared successful Netflix’s Inventing Anna and Survival of nan Thickest, HBO’s And Just Like That…, Comedy Central’s Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, and FX’s Better Things. He precocious wrapped a supporting domiciled successful nan upcoming Netflix comedy Best of nan Best alongside Hasan Minhaj, Priyanka Kedia, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan.
Siddiquee continues to beryllium represented by Levity and Myman Greenspan.
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