Heard the One About the Disabled Muslim Comic From Jersey?

Maysoon Zayid, a Muslim stand-up comedian who has cerebral palsy, with her cat at her home in Edgewater, N.J., Sept. 12, 2018. She has a development deal with ABC to create a semi-autographical sitcom called “Can-Can,” which, if it makes it to air, could push two populations, one widely ignored, the other demonized, from the country’s margins into the mainstream. “I want to get out there and be the image of the American you don’t think is American, and the Muslim you don’t think of when you think of a Muslim,” she said. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)