Sammy Obeid

{{short description|American writer and stand-up comedian}}

Sammy K. Obeid (born February 9, 1984) is an American writer and stand-up comedian. He has released one comedy album, Get Funny or Die Tryin. The New York Times described his comedy as displaying "an analytic style full of wordplay, clever misdirection and ethnic humor riffing on his Middle Eastern roots".{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/arts/sammy-obeid-on-his-1000th-comedy-show.html | title=Wake Up, Be Funny, Do it Again 999 Times | work=The New York Times |date=September 20, 2013| accessdate=10 October 2016 | author=Zinoman, John}} Obeid is Lebanese-Palestinian-Syrian-Italian-American.{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://sammyko.com/pages/about-us |access-date=2024-08-10 |website=Sammy Obeid |language=en}}

Obeid has been featured on America's Got Talent, Conan and Last Comic Standing. He once performed 1,001 nights of comedy in a row, which he claimed as a world record.{{cite web |last1=Kavanagh |first1=Niall |title=1,001 Straight Nights of Standup |url=https://www.vulture.com/2013/05/1001-straight-nights-of-standup.html |publisher=Vulture |accessdate=25 March 2020 |date=23 May 2013}} Obeid is also a host for the Netflix show 100 Humans and the founder of KO Comedy.{{Cite web|title=Sammy Obeid|url=http://www.kpcomedy.com/sammy-obeid.html|access-date=2021-03-25|website=KP Comedy|language=en}}