{"id":10852,"date":"2023-12-04T20:09:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T03:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/?p=10852"},"modified":"2023-12-28T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T22:06:15","slug":"ali-siddiq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/ali-siddiq\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Siddiq"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Friday, December 8th<\/h3>\n<p>After his release from prison in 1997, Siddiq started doing stand-up at the Just Joking Comedy Cafe in Houston. His first stage appearance was during the comedy club&#8217;s Apollo Night, which tended to attract a college crowd.&nbsp; Siddiq was booed on his first occasion on stage because he was wearing a suit.&nbsp; He decided to wait a couple of weeks before trying again while wearing jeans and a T-shirt.&nbsp; Siddiq became the co-host of the Apollo Night show a month later.&nbsp; Siddiq&#8217;s stand-up comedy tends to be in the storytelling style, versus the more common setup\/punch-line style.&nbsp; <sup id=\"cite_ref-STRAIGHT_13-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>Siddiq&#8217;s sets involve stories from his personal life, as well his observations on current events, race and politics. <strong><em>&#8211; via artist&#8217;s wiki<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Rialto Theatre | 318 E Congress | Doors at 7pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ye5pTJSeJ-8?si=CghWAQPEQ8Wv3PV1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, December 8th After his release from prison in 1997, Siddiq started doing stand-up at the Just Joking Comedy Cafe in Houston. His first stage appearance was during the comedy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[168],"tags":[170,38],"class_list":["post-10852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedy","tag-comedy","tag-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Original.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Hqfr-2P2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10871,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions\/10871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}