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Ali Hassan is a Canadian Stand-Up Comedian, Actor and Chef of South Asian descent

Early Life
Ali Hassan was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick. His family moved to Montreal when he was 2, which is where he spent his formative years. He graduated from McGill University with a degree in Political Science and went on to pursue his MBA from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Ali also holds an IT Diploma from ITI in Toronto. Ali worked on the sales floor of Future Shop, at the Bank of Montreal’s web division mbanx and as an IT consultant in Chicago at The Revere Group before pursuing food and comedy full time.

Culinary
Bombay Palace; Cash & Curry (article reference); own catering company, Lime Catering.

Comedy
2006 at The ComedyWorks in Montreal Quickly moved on to host the open mics and then open the shows on the weekends. He was also co-producing shows on the weekend such as BOOM (BEST OF OPEN MIC) Amman, Jordan – 2008 and 2009

Television
In September of 2011 Ali began working on the George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight Show, as a senior writer and lead comedy panelest. In all, he appeared on 160 episodes from 2012-2013. In the 2013-2014 season he re-appeared 5 times as a guest. Ali will appear in October of 2014 on an episode of the new PBS series Odd Squad.

Film
Ali has appeared in 3 films to date