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Comedian Maysoon Zayid doesn't aim to inspire you

4,392 views · Published 30 October 2015 · 22:18 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Q with Tom Power · 2015 · Entertainment

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Maysoon Zayid jokes that she has 99 problems, and cerebral palsy's just one. The pioneering Muslim-American comic uses humour as a way to connect audiences with the experience of people like her — people perceived as different. She joins Shad to discuss her witty defiance of social limits and conventions, how she handles online haters (hint: "mock him and block him") and why she believes only people with disabilities should play disabled characters on TV and in the movies.

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