{"id":69207,"date":"2026-05-12T17:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=69207"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:49:37","slug":"the-art-of-standup-find-the-funny","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-art-of-standup-find-the-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Standup \/ Find the Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai comedy heavyweight <strong>Miqdaad Dohadwala<\/strong> (main man at Mad Cat Comedy) explores stand-up as a serious creative craft, has some practical advice to would-be comics, and offers thoughts about why Dubai\u2019s comedy scene is so strong right now. This chat is followed by a practical demonstration in the form of a AED 200 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakbread.com\/experiences\/1461?page=2\"><strong>comedy workshop<\/strong><\/a> with Miqdaad at 8.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>These are among several events being run under the Rooted label, a collaborative project involving five organisations who successfully applied for one of Alserkal Avenue&#8217;s free four-week community-oriented warehouse initiatives \u2013 &#8220;bringing together artists, writers, musicians, makers and fashion creators to explore ideas of identity, place, and belonging in Dubai&#8221;. Rooted has events running to 13 June. Most are paid-for workshops, and none the worse for that; we prefer not to list commercial workshop activities and classes, however. The full calendar is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakbread.com\/experiences\/rooted\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Dubai comedy heavyweight Miqdaad Dohadwala (main man at Mad Cat Comedy) explores stand-up as a serious creative craft, has some practical advice to would-be comics, and offers thoughts about why Dubai\u2019s comedy scene is so strong right now. This chat <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-art-of-standup-find-the-funny\/\" title=\"The Art of Standup \/ Find the Funny\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65972,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[53,108,54],"class_list":["post-69207","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-comedy","tribe_events_cat-talk","tribe_events_cat-workshop","cat_comedy","cat_talk","cat_workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/69207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/69207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69207"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=69207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}