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title: "Max Amini: Stand-Up Comedian, TV Roles | D.O.C."
description: "Max Amini is a stand-up comedian and actor who began performing stand-up in 2002 and works the Los Angeles comedy circuit. Stand-up comedy. With sources."
url: https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-max-amini.html
updated: 2026-11-13
---

Stand-up comedian

# Max Amini

## Who Max Amini is

Max Amini is a stand-up comedian and actor who began performing stand-up in 2002 and works the Los Angeles comedy circuit. He became a resident comic at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood in 2006 and was a finalist in NBC's Diversity Showcase in 2009. In 2010 he created the stand-up tour Exotic Imports, featuring second-generation American comics, and he has headlined his own tours in Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, Dubai and Sweden. His acting credits include NBC's Heroes and Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia.

## Follow their dates

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Saw them live? [Make a card →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/share-my-doc.html#live)

## Is Max Amini on tour?

**No upcoming dates on record** No upcoming dates are on record right now. That doesn't mean they have stopped touring; follow them to hear when the next ones are booked.

Last checked 13 November 2026.

### Are they coming to my town?

No dates are on record right now (checked 13 November 2026), so no town is confirmed yet. Follow them and your town to hear when one is booked.

### Want them in your town?

Name your town and how many of you would come: the towns fans ask for show here, with how many asked.

Lineups belong to the rooms and the comedians, and can change; each listing has the last word. [Their nights on the Comedy Calendar →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedy-calendar.html) [Build a night out around their show →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/build-my-comedy-night.html)

## Specials, shows and podcasts

### On screen

- **Heroes**
- **Mind of Mencia**

## Comedians like Max Amini

Each linked to them by something on the record — a stage they both came through, a bill, a show, a style or a home town.

- [Brad Williams](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-brad-williams.html) also in Mind of Mencia
- [Carlos Mencia](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-carlos-mencia.html) also in Mind of Mencia
- [Mark Christopher Lawrence](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-mark-christopher-lawrence.html) also in Heroes
- [Pablo Francisco](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-pablo-francisco.html) also in Mind of Mencia
- [Steve Treviño](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-steve-trevino.html) also in Mind of Mencia

[Six Degrees of Komic Bacon: how they connect to anyone →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/six-degrees-of-komic-bacon.html)

[Every stand-up comedian with a page, A to Z →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedians.html)

## Questions and answers

### Where is Max Amini performing next?

No date is on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now.

### What TV shows and films are they in?

Heroes and Mind of Mencia.

### Who are some comedians like them?

[Brad Williams](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-brad-williams.html) (also in Mind of Mencia), [Carlos Mencia](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-carlos-mencia.html) (also in Mind of Mencia), [Mark Christopher Lawrence](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-mark-christopher-lawrence.html) (also in Heroes), [Pablo Francisco](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-pablo-francisco.html) (also in Mind of Mencia) and [Steve Treviño](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-steve-trevino.html) (also in Mind of Mencia).

## Is this you?

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Your short address, for your bio: **disciplesofcomedy.com/max-amini**

[Make this page yours →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-profile.html) [Your dates on your own site](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/tour-dates-widget.html) [Your show on a poster](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedy-show-flyer-maker.html)

## The full SUCDb record

The full record — the career in order, the specials and credits, and the sources for each — is on SUCDb, with a button to add them to your D.O.C., your twelve.

[Their SUCDb record →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-max-amini.html)

### Sources

- [Improv · improv.com ↗](https://improv.com/comic/max+amini/) Stand-up career begun 2002; Laugh Factory resident comic 2006; NBC Diversity Showcase finalist 2009; Exotic Imports tour 2010; international headline tours;…

Updated 13 November 2026 · the record checked 12 November 2026
