"Funniest Comedian RANDALL PARK vs PARDIS PARKER"
RANDALL PARK
Randall Park (born March 23, 1974) is an American actor, comedian and writer best known for portraying Eddie Huang's father, American restaurateur Louis Huang in the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat (2014–2020), for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2016. In 2012, he gained popularity playing Steve, a prank replacement of Jim Halpert in an episode of the NBC sitcom The Office. He appeared in the recurring role of Governor Danny Chung in the HBO comedy series Veep, and co-wrote and co-starred in the Netflix romantic comedy film Always Be My Maybe (2019), alongside Ali Wong. He also appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Agent Jimmy Woo in the 2018 film Ant-Man and the Wasp and 2021 miniseries WandaVision, and in the DC Extended Universe film Aquaman (2018) as Dr. Stephen Shin. He has appeared in numerous web series on Channel 101, including Dr. Miracles, IKEA Heights, and Wong Fu Productions. Park was born to Korean immigrants in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Castle Heights, Los Angeles. His mother was an accountant at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his father owned a one-hour photo store. Park graduated from Hamilton High School's humanities magnet program. Park began attending UCLA in winter quarter of 1993. As a student, he co-founded "Lapu, the Coyote that Cares," the largest and longest-running on-campus Asian American theater company, now known as the LCC Theatre Company, in 1995. He credits his experiences with LCC for sparking his desire to pursue acting professionally and would go on to collaborate with many of its alumni. Their first performance was of Treehouse Bachelor Society, a full-length play Park had written, and it was performed at the Northwest Auditorium. Park was also a student volunteer for UCLA's official charity, UCLA UniCamp, and went by the camp name "CareMoose."
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PARDIS PARKER
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, and the co-creator of NBC's Uncivil. 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 Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Chicago Sun-Times, Lit Hub, and McSweeney's, he's appeared on TV and in films in the United States and Canada, and he's a regular performer at the Hollywood Improv, Hollywood Laugh Factory, and World Famous Comedy Store. Created by and starring Parker, Mideast Minute is a satirical news show distributed worldwide on Comedy Central's digital platform. The series satirizes U.S. propaganda efforts, particularly the Congress-funded Alhurra network, by trying to convince Middle Easterners that everything's OK in the Middle East. In writing about the show, the Jerusalem Post said Parker had a "sharp, smart tone," Uproxx said Parker's "timing is impeccable," and Tubefilter said Parker was "both timely and funny — a combination that works." Co-created by Parker, Uncivil is a TV comedy about a pair of friends – a city prosecutor and public defender – who find that their personal squabbles spill into the courtroom and their professional disputes follow them home. Parker executive produces with Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner, Bradley Gardner, and co-creator Rell Battle. Universal Television is the studio.