Fahad Al-Butairi is a 27-year-old Saudi comedian and YouTube personality who was the first Saudi stand-up comedian to appear on stage professionally. He started a YouTube channel that got so famous that he is now known as the Seinfeld of Saudi Arabia.

Al-Butairi started his comedy career when he was in middle school. He used to perform in theater plays and in summer camps and centers in Saudi Arabia.

In 2006, when Al-Butairi was studying in the US he decided to try out at an open mike nights at the local comedy club in Austin where he was living. Basing his jokes on his personal experience was the way to go since he was a Saudi student living in the US and that, in itself, proved to be a rich subject.

When he moved back to the Kingdom and got busy with his job, he heard about a comedy event in Bahrain. He got to perform in front of 2,000 people.

The YouTube show, which he started on 2010, became his main claim to fame. It is called it “La Ykthar,” which is Arabic for “Shut up and don’t overdo it.” The show discusses Saudi social and political topics. It has grown in popularity with each monthly episode. Al-Butairi now has over 909,000 followers on Twitter, over 488,893 subscribers on YouTube and his videos have reached 62,293,268 views.