Saman Arbabi (Persian: سامان اربابی‎‎; born 1973) is an Iranian-American award winning international journalist, video director, cartoonist, host, creator and Executive Producer of Voice of America's most popular satirical television shows Parazit and OnTen. His work has been called “civic satire”, comedy with a political and media mission. He was born in Tehran, Iran in 1973, moved to France in 1984, and then the United States in 1986.