Q: What do Ken Jeong, Daniel Dae Kim, Randall Park, John Cho, Jimmy O. Yang, Sherry Cola, Jae Suh Park, Vivian Bang, Sydney Park, and Liza Soberano have in common?
A: They’re all in my new audio fiction series!!!!! Coming next week! variety.com/2026/digital...
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Ken Jeong, Daniel Dae Kim, Randall Park Star in ‘The Moons of LA’ Coming-of-Age Comedy Series at Audible, Co-Produced by Kim’s 3AD
Ken Jeong, Randall Park and Daniel Dae Kim lead the star-studded cast of Audible’s new comedy series “The Moons of LA” -- featuring a meta twist involving a kid who's obsessed with true-crime podcasts...
![From an interview:
Gold Derby: This script was originally a writing sample for you to get work in TV, right?
Katie Dippold: It was specifically for Parks and Recreation. The script was very different back then, but I think it gave [co-creator] Mike Schur an idea of my sense of humor, so I got it off of that. I worked there for Seasons 2, 3, and 4, but I kept revisiting this over the years. For some reason, I just kept getting pulled back to it. I think that initial version leaned too hard-comedy. I wanted to take the stakes and the tension and the horror seriously, and so l had to rip it apart and just keep brainstorming. It was kind of scary to rip it apart because for a while, nothing's working. Then eventually, once I got the character stories down and thought about where I wanted it to go, I started weaving the comedy back in.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hc6yooytbq4lni53obj4zvbg/bafkreiem6b2ynfbldtxhxlzxayw2rw35uiiiqtcotrzdovkoru45rhp4vq)
