Ibrahim Salem

Ibrahim Salem is a Colombian stand-up comedian and writer born in Colombia to a family of Palestinian descent who fled war in the Middle East in the mid-1980s and settled in Bogota. He began performing comedy in bars and small stages in the city, building a following for material that treats everyday topics with an ironic, often dark edge. In 2015 he joined the cast of the television program Sabados Felices and won its national comedy final, earning an invitation to the International Humor Festival, but was later removed from the show's cast after telling jokes about the bombing of the General Santander police cadet school. He has continued performing stand-up on his own terms since leaving the program, including with the touring show Pispirispis, and Colombian press has described him as one of the country's most polarizing humorists for his willingness to joke about taboo subjects. He publishes his stand-up material on his YouTube channel, Ibrahim Salem Comediante.