Tim Bright scores Houstan-based comedian Ali Siddiq’s new Comedy Central stand-up special ‘It’s Bigger Than These Bars.’ The comedy special, which premiered on February 23rd, is Ali Siddiq’s first hour-long special for Comedy Central. Filmed at the Bell County Jail in Central Texas, the stand-up special includes \u00a0interviews with inmates and prison staff, and is\u00a0significant because it marks the comedian first return to a prison since serving six years of a 15-year prison sentence for drug trafficking.<\/p>\n
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Ali Siddiq has mentioned that his goal has always been to make a bigger impact with his comedy and encourage inmates “who’ve been locked up and thought they couldn’t achieve something.” The comedian first began honing his stand-up craft while in prison.<\/p>\n
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Website\u00a0\u2013 Tim Bright<\/a><\/p>\n To learn more about the special \u2013 Uproxx<\/a><\/p>\n To watch the official trailer\u00a0\u2013 Comedy Central<\/a><\/p>\n To watch the special\u00a0\u2013 ‘It’s Bigger Than These Bars’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tim Bright scores Houstan-based comedian Ali Siddiq’s new Comedy Central stand-up special ‘It’s Bigger Than These Bars.’ The comedy special, which premiered on February 23rd, is Ali Siddiq’s first hour-long special for Comedy Central. Filmed at the Bell County Jail in Central Texas, the stand-up special includes \u00a0interviews with inmates and prison staff, and is\u00a0significant… Continue reading Tim Bright Scores Ali Siddiq’s Comedy Central Special ‘It’s Bigger Than These Bars’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22604,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22600\/revisions\/22604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}