Is he a comedian who cooks? A cook who tells jokes? A “pan-South Asian?” A “cultural Muslim”? These are part of the gnarl of identities that Toronto-based comedian and CBC host Ali Hassan confronts in his new memoir, “Is There Bacon in Heaven?”
These are part of the gnarl of identities that Toronto-based comedian and CBC host Ali Hassan confronts in his new memoir,Warm and wise and loony, it has already earned the thickest of praise by fellow jester Rick Mercer: “Ali Hassan has written perhaps the funniest and most heartfelt Canadian memoir yet.”
Among the nuttiest moments that Hassan recounts in his book are his experiences with US Customs — especially after some rough times at the border post-9/11. “When you tell people you’re a comedian,” he tells me, “one of three things typically happen. One: they say, ‘Tell me a joke.’ Two: they say, ‘You know what you should joke about?’ Three: they become completely disarmed — any attitude or prejudice they might have had melts away.
And travelling to Saudi Arabia with his family — a strange fish-out-of-water experience. Still another tale in his tank. I ask how growing up in Montreal when he did — an underlying theme of the book — informed his sense of self. “An interesting thing in Quebec,” he says, “ the focus on language has always been so acute that the colour of my skin was rarely a cause for concern with the French. Instead of ethnic slurs, the bigots always opted to call us ‘maudites Anglophones’ . Which also meant that there was a solution to that discrimination: just learn the language, and you could be accepted.
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