The "Seinfeld of Saudi Arabia," as The Washington Post and The National named him, is the first Saudi stand-up comedian to appear on stage professionally in Saudi Arabia and in the Gulf states. He is also an actor and a renowned YouTube personality. Fahad Albutairi was born in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. He began performing stand-up comedy as a student at the University of Texas at Austin, from which he graduated in December 2007. He considers his real start to have been at the open mic nights at local comedy clubs in Austin. His debut as a stand-up comedian in the Arab World was on October 2, 2008, opening for Ahmed Ahmed and Maz Jobrani in Bahrain alongside a host of other local comedians as part of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour. Since then, he has shared the stage with the likes of Russell Peters, Gabriel Iglesias, Sebastian Maniscalco, Bobby Lee, Erik Griffin, Dean Edwards, Angelo Tsarouchas, Aron Kader and Dean Obeidallah. His first performance in Saudi Arabia was in Riyadh in February 2009, which attracted over 1,500 audience members. On November 3, 2009, Albutairi was chosen out of 65 English-speaking contestants as the winner of the Be a Part of the Amman Stand-up Comedy Festival in 2009. He also took part in the New Faces of Arab Comedy showcase at the 2010 New York Arab-American Comedy Festival and was one of the “New Faces” to be chosen for the "Best of the Fest" night of the festival. Fahad was also chosen to be on the panel of judges for the largest online stand-up comedy competition in the region, The Kit Kat Comedy Break Show. In 2010, Fahad started his own show on YouTube entitled La Yekthar Show, which is a Saudi colloquial term that roughly translates to "put a lid on it.” In 2013, he was chosen as one of the leads for Emirati director Ali Mostafa's second feature film, From A to B. On January 15, 2016, Albutairi performed at the Hollywood Laugh Factory with Maz Jobrani, Tony Rock, Steve Hofstetter and many others. He was the first Saudi professional stand-up comedian to perform at the Laugh Factory.