Chad, a forthcoming comedy from TBS, has Saturday Night Live alum Nasim Pedrad playing the titular character — a 14-year-old pubescent Persian boy navigating his first year of high school on a mission to become popular. Much like the celebrated PEN15 from 2019, Chad has the main grown-up actor playing a teen, and at the Television Critics Association press tour Wednesday, Pedrad talked about transforming into a kid much, much younger than she really is. (She's 38.)