Pax Assadi

Pax Assadi (born 1990 or 1991) is a New Zealand comedian and writer. He was born in New Zealand to an Iranian father and Pakistani mother, and grew up on the North Shore of Auckland before moving to Hamilton as a teenager, where he worked at his father's vacuum cleaner store. Later the family moved again to Christchurch. He was inspired by comedians Omid Djalili, Jo Koy, Dylan Moran, and Dave Chappelle.

Assadi has been performing comedy since 2012. He won the NZ Comedy Guild's Gag of the Year award in 2016, and is part of the comedy trio Frickin Dangerous Bro with James Roque and Jamaine Ross. In 2016, he was nominated for the Fred Award for his show In Mid-Season Form. He was a co-presenter with Nicola Toki on the TVNZ series Endangered Species Aotearoa, and co-hosted The Great Kiwi Bake Off. In 2022 he created and starred in the series Raised by Refugees, which is based on his own childhood.

He has also appeared on Word Up, 7 Days, The Project, Crack Up, 60 Seconds, Have You Been Paying Attention?, and Brown Eye, and acted on scripted programmes including Jono And Ben, Funny Girls, and Tongue Tied. In 2025, Assadi appeared on the sixth season of Taskmaster New Zealand, and the same year declared he was "bored" doing stand-up and wanted to focus on film and television. He has lived in New Lynn, West Auckland since 2020, practises Baha'i, and he and his wife Sholeh have two daughters, Vaha and Lua.