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- Was this comment helpful?Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems ... palsy is just one | TED Talk |
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"I have cerebral palsy. I shake all the time," Maysoon Zayid announces at the beginning of this exhilarating, hilarious talk. (Really, it's hilarious.) "I'm like Shakira meets Muhammad Ali." With grace and wit, the Arab-American comedian takes us on a whistle-stop tour of her adventures as an actress, stand-up comic, philanthropist and advocate for the disabled.
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Writer, actor, comedian, Maysoon Zayid is the co-founder of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival.
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本周， 我获得了一个“A”。
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