Ali Siddiq

Ali Siddiq: Biography in Details

Who is Ali Siddiq?

Ali Siddiq is a stand-up comedian, writer, and radio broadcaster from the United States of America now residing in Houston, Texas.

He emerged victorious in the stand-up comedy competition known as Up Next, which was hosted by Comedy Central in 2013.

In 2019, he competed on the NBC competition show Bring the Funny and made it to the final round.

Ali Siddiq: Bio, Age, Parents, Siblings, Ethnicity, Education

Ali Siddiq was born on October 17, 1973  in Houston, Texas, U.S. As of 2024, his age is 50. According to the astrologist’s birth chart, Ali Siddiq’s zodiac sign is Libra.  He holds an American nationality and belongs to a mixed ethnicity.

Besides this, he has a sibling whose name is still unclear. Not only this his Mother and Father’s names and real identities are missing.  Moreover, Ali Siddiq Holds an American nationality and belongs to a mixed ethnicity.

Houston, Texas, is the birthplace of Siddiq. Siddiq and his brothers were raised by their mother following the divorce of their parents, spending some time living in the projects.

Later on, he and his siblings moved in with other family members. After Siddiq, then ten years old, narrowly avoided being run over by a car, his mother and aunt physically assaulted the driver because she would not accept responsibility.

Ali Siddiq: Professional life, Career

Before Fame

Siddiq started selling drugs at the age of 14. Four days after turning nineteen, he was given a prison sentence for cocaine trafficking.

He was housed in the Ruben M. Torres Unit in Hondo, Texas, for 15 years of his sentence. On October 21, 1997, he was freed from prison. Following his release, he held positions at a department store and a store selling sunglasses.

During his imprisonment, he found his talent to make others laugh by cracking jokes with his fellow prisoners to lighten the situation. His captive audience was his coworkers, with whom he shared a prison laundry.

He says that one of the first people who inspired him to perform stand-up was Rodney Dangerfield, who “made me see that the comedy game doesn’t have to be a selfish thing.” Def Comedy Jam, he said, gave him “the drive to start” performing stand-up comedy.

In December 1997, Siddiq made his stand-up comedy debut at Houston’s Just Joking Comedy Club.

His debut performance took place on Apollo Night at the club, which drew a lot of college students. Siddiq remembers that because he was wearing a suit, people jeered at him when he initially went on stage.

He waited two weeks before doing it again, this time in jeans and a T-shirt. A month later, Siddiq was co-hosting the Apollo Night show.

After meeting Rickey Smiley at the Arena Theatre, who advised him to do so to wow audiences, he started wearing suits again.

From 2000 to 2003, Siddiq appeared on BET’s ComicView for four seasons in a row.  He made an appearance on the tenth episode of the eighth season of HBO’s Def Comedy Jam, which aired on March 8, 2008, at the show’s finale.

In the 2000s, Siddiq made seven or nine albums, the first of which was called Necessary Therapy, but he was not happy enough with any of them to put them out, according to interviews.

2010-2015

On May 22, 2010, Siddiq published his debut comedy special, Talking Loud Saying Something, initially as a digital album and then on CD in December of the same year.

His comedic storytelling technique had a sea change after the release of the album: “I changed on my first album, which I thought was a lot more in-depth than someone would have known if they had just listened to the album.” Siddiq said, “The way I sounded and the way I delivered, I was like ‘this is going to be the blueprint of my transition.'”

Siddiq was chosen as the Up Next stand-up comedy competition winner by Comedy Central voters on November 18, 2013.

At “Preliminary” local showcases in September, more than 300 comedians from throughout the nation performed; forty of them advanced to the “Semi-finals,” which took place in October in four different cities: Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Fort Lauderdale.

Before being selected to play at Chicago Improv, Siddiq gave a performance at Houston Improv. He was one of nine comedians who advanced to the November 6 Comics to Watch showcase “Finals” at the New York Comedy Festival.

2016-2024

He had an appearance on the second episode of the second season of the Comedy Central television series This Is Not Happening in 2015, which aired on January 26.

His account of what happened during a jail riot—during which he discovered the true meaning of the expression “Mexican got on boots!”—became popular on YouTube. On September 17, Siddiq had an appearance on Gotham Comedy Live, which aired on AXS TV.

He debuted a half-hour special on Comedy Central’s The Half Hour in 2016.

He started filming his one-hour special It’s Bigger Than These Bars in 2017. The show was shot at Belton, Texas’s Bell County Jail.

Siddiq’s performance in front of a group of prisoners is intercut with shots of him having a conversation with jail officials and smaller groups of men and women incarcerated in their cells. The video was released on Comedy Central on February 23, 2018.

Siddiq made appearances on two television shows in 2018: The Opposition with Jordan Klepper on Comedy Central on February 22 and Desus & Mero on Viceland on February 21.

In 2019, Siddiq made guest appearances on two TV shows: This Week at the Comedy Cellar on Comedy Central, which aired on August 2, and The D.L. Hughley program, a late-night chat program on TV One, which aired on September 5.  On the NBC comedy competition series Bring the Funny, he reached the finals.

On January 17, 2020, Siddiq was the featured guest on Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks, the eleventh episode of the second season.

Siddiq began appearing on the Funky Larry Jones afternoon drive show on Houston’s KMJQ (102.1 FM) in January 2021.

On the fourth episode of the third season of Epix’s Unprotected Sets, which aired on February 25, 2022, Siddiq gave a one-hour special.

He had cameo appearances in the second episode of the third season of the HBO series Pause with Sam Jay, which aired on June 3, and on the second episode of the second season of the Showtime series Flatbush Misdemeanors, which aired on June 26.

In early 2023, Hitkor released D. L. Hughley’s three-part stand-up comedy series Speakeasy, which featured a performance by Siddiq on its second episode.

He made an appearance in the seventh episode of The Marshall Project’s documentary series Inside Story, which aired on Vice News on March 16, 2023, titled “The Rise of Life-Without-Parole Sentences”.

Ali Siddiq: Net Worth, Salary

As of 2024, Ali Siddiq’s net worth is assumed to be around, 1.5 million dollars. Besides this, his annual salary, and weekly earnings are missing.

Ali Siddiq Rumors, Controversy

There is no record of Ali Siddiq being involved in any rumors and buzzes. Owing to his long professional career, he has not been indulged in any part of controversy yet. he has maintained a clean image and low profile.

Ali Siddiq: Body features, Height, Weight

Ali Siddiq’s height stands at 5 feet 7 inches and his weight of around 74 Kgs. Moreover, his body measurements are missing. Additionally, he has black hair and black pairs of beautiful eyes.

Social Media

He is highly active on his social networking sites, as of 2024, His Instagram account has 534K followers under the user ID, @alisiddiq

Similarly, his Facebook account has around 1.1M followers under the user ID, @ali.siddiq.92 and his Twitter account has 32.2K followers under the user account, @Ali_Speaks.

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