Bashir Salahuddin

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Summary

Bashir Salahuddin is an actor, writer, and comedian known for co-creating South Side and Sherman’s Showcase with Diallo Riddle, as well as for writing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and acting in GLOW and Top Gun: Maverick. His comedy often draws on Chicago’s South Side and Black music and culture. He has said South Side was meant to show the diversity within the black community, and has described pushing back against Hollywood assumptions about what black audiences and characters would accept. No public record of party campaigning, political donations, or activist affiliations is established.