Filipino comic from Cavite finds happiness of family life in Dubai

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The late American actor Robin Williams once said that the saddest people always try their best to make others happy because “they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”

Thirty-six-year-old Patrick John E. Ascaño, a fixture in the Dubai Filipino community’s stand-up comedy scene, couldn’t relate more.  Ascaño experienced being bullied in school for being “fat and gay,” and grew up selling fermented fish paste...