Ali Hassan is a Stand-Up Comedian, Actor, Chef and Radio & Television celebrity. Ali is the host of Laugh Out Loud on CBC Radio & SiriusXM and the frequent guest-host of q - the national arts & entertainment show also broadcast on NPR and PRI.  He was also twice the host of Canada Reads - Canada’s Battle of The Books - and the Lead Comedy Panelist on CBC Television's George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. He is a comedy festival favourite and a Canadian Comedy Award nominee. He has also starred in the films French Immersion, Breakaway and Goon and  the 2019 movie My Spy with Dave Bautista. On Television he has had memorable recurring characters on FXX's Man Seeking Woman, PBS Kids' Odd Squad and the CTV/eOne series Cardinal, and Ali recently starred in the VICE series, FUBAR: Age of Computer and ABC’sDesignated Survivor.  Look for him in 6 episodes of CBS's summer series, Blood & Treasure.  Ali also tours a one man show Muslim Interrupted.  The show ran at both Just for Laughs in Montreal and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and Ali is presently receiving accolades and an enormous amount of press coverage in 2017 and 2018 as he tours it in major cities across Canada.