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  • PARDIS PARKER
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· Stand-up · Writing
  • FICTION
  • The New Quarterly Good Person
    Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award Runner-up
  • PERSONAL ESSAYS
  • New York Review Illegal Milk
  • New York Times | Modern Love The Bear Chased Us. Then We Chased the Bear.
  • COMMENTARY
  • The New Yorker Offer and Counteroffer
  • McSweeney's That Word Does Not Mean What You Think It Means
  • McSweeney's I Like My Cops Like I Like My Surgeons: Cautious, and Not Looking to Kill Me
  • McSweeney's An Open Letter to the T&T Supermarket Clerk Who Was Told to "Go Back to China"
  • Chicago Sun-Times An Open Letter to the National Rifle Association
  • Chicago Sun-Times Expect Less
  • Los Angeles Review of Books Thank God We've Come to Our Senses
  • CARTOONS & HUMOR
  • Electric Literature I am the NY Times Connections Puzzle and I am the Reason Everyone is Angry
    Electric Literature's Most Popular Post of 2025
  • Lit Hub My Brain is a Snake
  • Weekly Humorist Mousetrap
· Film/TV
  • FILM
  • Afghan (16mm)
    Writer, Director, Actor
    67 Official Selections
    32 Awards & Distinctions
  • The Dance (35mm)
    Writer, Director, Actor
    62 Official Selections
    25 Awards & Distinctions
  • Two Men, Two Cows, Two Guns (35mm)
    Writer, Director
    71 Official Selections
    23 Awards & Distinctions
  • TELEVISION
  • NBC Uncivil
    Co-creator, Executive Producer
  • Amazon Prime Free
    Creator, Executive Producer
  • DIGITAL
  • Comedy Central Mideast Minute
    Creator, Executive Producer
  • Jash Stand Up to Cancer
    Writer, Producer
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Hi there!

If you're here for my stand-up, this link has my TED Talks, TV sets, and crowdwork clips.

For my writing, the pieces I suggest you start with are Good Person, Illegal Milk, and The Bear Chased Us. Then We Chased the Bear.

For the short films that began my career, please start with Afghan, and for my work in Hollywood, please start with Mideast Minute.

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