Some of the best comedy creates a release valve for the frustrations, annoyances and pain of daily life, especially the ones we feel as consumers beset by an increasingly techy world presented with PR instead of explanations. Upcoming Comedy Studio headliner Abbas Wahab wants you to know he feels your pain. Whether it’s the baffling doublespeak of engineering interviews, the wild decisions of marketing teams or the intricacy of the immigrant experience, he’s found ways to joke about it in sharp yet grounded ways from a background in Canada, Detroit and San Francisco in jobs such as “polymer research assistant” and “operations program manager.” He’s bringing these unique yet relatable observations to Harvard Square on Wednesday. In case you suffer from the pain of “What do I know that guy from?” you should know that Wahab is a frequently (but briefly) seen face on TV and in film, most recently in Amazon Prime’s “The Boys,” FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows” and M. Night Shyamalan’s “Trap.” As blurbed once back in Toronto, “If nothing else, come out and see what a wasted engineering degree looks like.”
“An Hour With Abbas Wahab” at 7 p.m. Wednesday at The Comedy Studio, 5 John F. Kennedy St., Harvard Square, Cambridge. $24 to $32.
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