Naveed Mahbub

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Naveed Mahbub
Alma mater
SpouseZara Jabeen
Children2[1]
Comedy career
Medium
  • Stand-up
  • television

Naveed Mahbub (Bengali: নাভিদ মাহবুব) 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

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Mahbub 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

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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 claims to have acted in a small role in the film You Don't Mess with the Zohan, featuring Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider even though he isn't seen anywhere in the film.[2]

Books

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  • Humorously Yours and Counting (2015)[8]

Personal life

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He married Zara Jabeen in 1998. They have three children, Zaina, Maryam and Niyam.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Zara Jabeen Mahbub: A banker with passion". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e Mahboob, Mahdin (March 7, 2008). "Naveed Mahbub and his stand-up comedy". Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  3. ^ "Naveed Mahbub on Comedy Central". The Daily Star. October 22, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
  4. ^ "Naveed Mahbub". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on November 3, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  5. ^ "Naveed Mahbub". The Daily Star. June 16, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  6. ^ Ditan, Tanziral (August 11, 2015). "Thank God It's Friday". The Daily Star. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  7. ^ "The Naveed Mahbub Show on ntv". The Daily Star. June 1, 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  8. ^ "Dhaka Lit Fest begins". The Daily Star. November 20, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
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