Pardis Parker

Pardis Parker is the creator and star of Comedy Central’s Mideast Minute, the creator of Free, a new half hour comedic drama in development at Amazon Prime with Plan B Entertainment, and the co-creator of Uncivil, a new single-cam comedy in development at NBC with Universal Television and Hazy Mills Productions. As a writer, his nonfiction and satire have been published by the New Yorker, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Chicago Sun-Times, Weekly Humorist, Lit Hub, and McSweeney’s, and his first piece of short fiction, “Good Person,” was named runner-up for The New Quarterly‘s Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award.