Background
Munasifi was born in Washington, District of Columbia and grew up in Virginia.
Munasifi was born in Washington, District of Columbia and grew up in Virginia.
Munasifi graduated from the Honors Program at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, West Virginia in 2002.
His videos have gained over 89 million views as of March 2016. Munasifi"s comedic alter-ego "Habib Abdul Habib" received much popularity for joking about matters such as United States. security screening. He is known for a video titled "Arlington: The Rap", which received 300,000 views in less than a day.
In 2009, he signed with the Gersh Agency, and later landed a Comedy Central Records deal.
Munasifi has since been the opening act for rapper Wale, comedian Brian Posehn and others He has performed several times in the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival.
Munasifi"s debut European Parliament, titled The Falafel Album, is available on iTunes. The Falafel Album was highly influenced by Munasifi"s Iraqi and Lebanese heritage, especially culture and food.
Since 2010, Munasifi has partnered with Reason television and the Reason Foundation to create libertarian parody videos.
Munasifi"s 2011 political spoof video titled "Raise the Debt Ceiling" had over 520,000 hits on YouTube. He was interviewed on Fox News about the content of the song as well as his views about the debt ceiling.
