CARTOON: No Escape No Problem

Pardis Parker is the creator and star of Comedy Central’s Mideast Minute, the creator of Amazon Prime’s Free, and the co-creator of NBC’s Uncivil. As a writer, his work 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, Lit Hub, and McSweeney’s. As a comedian, he’s a six-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee who’s performed twice at TED.