He’s a bit poncey, but Adhir Kalyan is far wittier than that sitcom he was in, Aliens in America. Here he more than holds his own against Craig Ferguson (thanks, Joolz).
My new improv dream team: Kalyan, Colbert and young Robin Williams on Whose Line Is It Anyway? Colbert’s already been on that wonderful show.
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Lawyer Neal Katyal went on the Colbert Report four years ago, where Colbert mock-smeared him for defending due process in the Hamdan case:
Satire is now dead. Dick Cheney’s camp actually released an ad last week likening pro bono Gitmo defenders like Neal Katyal to terrorists, to much hand-wringing among both lefties and conservatives. One columnist [...]
Clowning around at the Olympics, Stephen Colbert needles British Columbia MP Ujjal Dosanjh about the caste system. Colbert even gets in a lick about the Indian ice skating team, by which I can only assume he means U Mich students Davis and White.
Uncle vs. comedian ain’t a fair bout — you need someone quick and [...]
Gordon Ramsay’s “Gordon’s Great Escape” recently aired on Channel 4 in the UK and through the miracle of the interwebs, we had a chance to watch the three-part series. Over the course of a few weeks, everyone’s favorite foul-mouthed Scotsman travels all over India to learn about India and its cuisine. Not one [...]
I’m delighted that Republican Scott Brown won the special election for Ted Kennedy’s seat — not because I agree with his positions, which seem the usual free-lunch pablum, but because I’m hoping the Gandhis go next. The foundations of a democracy are eroded when legislative seats are passed down like so much family china. I [...]
Aziz Ansari apparently played the same character in Scrubs as in Funny People and Parks and Recreation. But that one character is hilarious.
Here’s how he was written off when he landed Parks and its inevitable schedule conflict. Playing an underperforming desi med student is breaking stereotypes of a sort:
Now that an 11/26 recon man was found in the U.S., says Aasif Mandvi, India has no choice but to invade the U.S.
Seen an American TV show recently? Invasion underway.
On Parks’ all-Aziz special, Ansari passes out at a strip club, mooning over the green card wife he just divorced. Then gets man-carried home. Bullocks, she’s from Canada.
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Wyclef Jean, Cyndi Lauper, DJ Rekha and Neel Murgai performed ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ on Letterman last night (thanks, Joolz). The track’s sweet, poppish melody sounds like Maya lyrics crossed with Cornershop sitar.
And to answer your burning question: Cyndi’s 56, but she still rocks it.
Kumail Nanjiani unfurled his eyebrows for comedy on Letterman Friday night. It’s interesting how every standup comic who’s not black or white starts with a joke about his ethnicity. Nanjiani didn’t riff off it too much, slowed down his set and kept it clean for primetime.
Letterman’s intro was a touch awkward. He seems like he’s [...]
Stephen Colbert riffed last night on the leaked memo telling Indian cricketers to have sex before a match because it increases testosterone. It’s such a pleasure to finally have the phrase ’sticky wicket’ handled correctly.
Decked out in pimp suit and dreads, Aziz ‘T-Pain’ Ansari gets a Halloween party started. 1 minute clip.
Happy Heteroween.
Craig Ferguson brings us a very entertaining, Halloween-themed Rushdie interview. They discuss vampires, Enchantress, Michiko Kakutani, sexual awakenings at Cambridge, Romanian translators, graphic novels, the difference between red and green kryptonite, and dick jokes. (thanks, Joolz)
Last week’s episode of Parks and Recreation riffed on Indian-American stereotypes and the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest. In this short clip, comedian Louis C.K. arrests Aziz Ansari in his own vehicle and drags him down to the police station.
At 8:11 in the episode, Ansari says he changed his name from Darwish Zabir Ishmael Ghani [...]