# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saman-arbabi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:36:07.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saman-arbabi"
name: "Saman Arbabi"
slug: "saman-arbabi"
description: "Saman Arbabi is an Iranian-American journalist, video director, cartoonist, host, creator, and executive producer of Voice of America's satirical television shows Parazit and OnTen. His work has been called \"civic satire\", comedy with a political and media mission."
tagline: "Iranian-born American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Saman_Arbabi_-_PopTech_2011_-_Camden_Maine_USA_2_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1973"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.5
  momentum:             8.710246128318584
  historical:           4.61602
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4276510/"
    handle:    "nm4276510"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "سامان اربابى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saman_Arbabi"
    title: "Saman Arbabi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "سامان اربابی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saman_Arbabi"
    title: "Saman Arbabi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saman_Arbabi"
    title: "Saman Arbabi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7408544"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump