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Ali Siddiq Is Free
He sold drugs. He went to prison. Then he became stand-up comedy’s most prolific storyteller.
For nearly two decades, the Houston native’s material focused on observations on a fairly standard set of topics: growing up, parenting, dating, dealing with white people. The success of the episode, which currently has almost 15 million views, led to a 2018 Comedy Central special, It’s Bigger Than These Bars, which he shot in a Texas jail while interacting with prisoners and sharing more stories of his time of incarceration. “Years ago, people would ask, ‘Man, why haven’t you gotten bigger in comedy?’ And I was like, ‘Because I hadn’t paid the universe back the things for what I did.’” Photo: Allie Leepson + Jesse McClary
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