As some of you may have heard by now, ABC is shooting the pilot for FUNNY IN FARSI in Febuary 2010. Maz Jobrani has been cast as my father, the beautiful Marjan Neshat as my mother, and Hrach Titizian as my uncle. ABC is still deciding the rest of the cast.

I don’t want to give anything away, not to mention that changes can be made until the last minute, but suffice to say that I LOVE the script. The very talented husband and wife team of Nastaran Dibai and Jeffrey Hodes are the writers. Yes, Nastaran is Iranian and Jeffrey is almost Iranian.

It’s very exciting to be part of a project that utilizes the talents of so many Middle Easterners. Maz and Marjan are Iranian and Hrach is Armenian. I was hoping that at least part of the cast would be Iranian but what’s more important is for them to be good! And they are.

Stay tuned!