They descended upon Occupy Wall Street. They joined the Oakland general strike, and they even touched the levee in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans — and it wasn’t all for laughs. The envelope-pushing, activist-comedy troupe Laughter Against the Machine also wants to raise the level of awareness around numerous social and political issues.Just in time for 2012, LATM heads back to The City for its “New Year’s Guerrilla Stand-up Comedy.”
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In comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh’s solo autobiographical play about informing her Iranian-immigrant, Muslim parents that her boyfriend, Duncan, is moving in with her, her father — struggling to fully comprehend that Duncan is an atheist — delivers a theory that explicates the show’s perplexing title: “All Atheists are Muslim.”
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