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Dave vs. Dearborn: Comedian Dave Landau tackles Sharia law and Tesla dads

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Dave Landau has been arrested more than a dozen times, battled drug addiction, watched his mother struggle with severe mental illness, and somehow lived long enough to become a suburban dad complaining about Teslas. Naturally, he thinks all of this is hilarious. 'Being a dad, a husband, and 16 years sober is better.' Sharia lawyer The Detroit-born comic mines some remarkably dark territory in his new special, "30 Minutes with Dave Landau," filmed at the Creek and the Cave in Austin and produced by the legendary Luis J. Gomez. Landau has long put the drinking and the drugs behind him; these days, he says “being a dad, a husband, and 16 years sober is better” than the life that supplied him with so much of his material. But sober doesn't mean wholesome. Over the next half hour, Landau moves from Islamic extremism in Michigan to cocaine washing ashore in Florida, his mother's bipolar disorder, the emasculating effect of electric cars, and being the "only man who can make a Catholic wake s