Max Amini

About

Max Amini (born September 20, 1981) is an Iranian-American comedian, actor, producer and director. He is known primarily as a world touring stand-up comedian, and has appeared on shows such as NBC’s Heroes, Netflix’s Real Rob with Rob Schneider, and Comedy Central’s Mind of Mencia. On an episode of Spike’s Car Radio Podcast, Jerry Seinfeld named Max Amini one of the top comedians to watch. Max established his production company, Abstraction Media in 2010, and has sold projects to networks such as Voice Of America, Discovery, and more. Other projects include directing a Netflix original stand-up special, Enissa Amani: Ehrenwort, and the feature film, James The Second, set to release in 2022. Amini has performed stand up in both English and Persian.

Max Amini was born in Tucson, Arizona, to Iranian parents who had immigrated after the 1979 revolution. His father was an ethnic Persian from Isfahan and his mother is an Iranian Azerbaijani from Tabriz.
At the age of eight, his parents moved their family to Iran, where he lived until he was 17.
He went to high school in Washington, D.C., and then moved to California and graduated from the School of Theater…