| dbo:abstract | - Pardis Parker is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian award-winning director, writer, actor, and comedian, the creator and star of Comedy Central's Mideast Minute, the co-creator of NBC's Uncivil, and the creator of Amazon Prime's Free. His filmmaking work has screened at over 150 film festivals worldwide and received over 80 awards and nominations, his writing has 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, he's appeared on TV and in films in the United States and Canada, and he's performed his stand-up comedy at comedy clubs, theaters, festivals, and TED. (en)
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| dbp:notableWork | - Mideast Minute, Uncivil, Free, Life in Pieces, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Combat Hospital, Single White Spenny, The New Yorker, The New York Times, TED (en)
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