Best Host · MICF Awards 2025
Zaher Ali.
Best Host at the 2025 MICF Awards, for the first Firing Squad.
The show
Firing Squad.
Firing Squad with Zaher Ali and friends was the festival’s first gong show. The comics went up, the audience decided who stayed, and Zaher kept the whole thing moving.
- When: Saturday 18 October 2025, 20:30
- Where: Aleatorio Bar, Calle de Ruiz 7
The award
Where it started.
In a gong show the audience decides who gets kicked off. Zaher made that work. He was fair with every comic, rough when the moment called for it, and he kept the votes moving so nobody in the room had time to get bored.
Thanks to him the competition went really well, and the show was on fire from the first minute to the last. It worked so well that Firing Squad came back in 2026, and so did the award: Best Host 2026.
Thank you, Zaher, for making a gong show feel like a party. Congratulations.