Is Aziz Ansari the funniest Minor TV Celebrity working today? No, that title goes to John Hodgman, who pretty much invented the category of minor TV celebrity.
Is he the funniest Indian American on TV today? My friend Ari is actually from India and he’s pretty funny, but he’s also not on TV as far as I know, so then yes, he is.
In any case, whatever he is, he’s pretty funny and with his new comedy special out, he’s all over the place now. Could this minor TV celebrity be making the transformation to major TV celebrity?
Probably not. He’s too short and he has a beard and he’s some race that’s not white or black. We don’t do undersized, unshaved, nuanced racial politics very well in this country (see Margaret Cho). Still, he’s funny, so he’ll always have that. Unless he goes the Robin Williams route with his career.
Anyways, with that in mind, a special Aziz Ansari Friday Links edition:
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Racism Lesson from Flight of the Conchords
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With Jimmy Kimmel, on Kayne West
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Raaaaaaaady part 1, part 2, and part 3
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From Human Giant: Why rollerblading is hard
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“Are white people just psyched ALL THE TIME?”
That’s the best line. I know I’m psyched all the time–not just from movies, but whenever I look at the senate. Sometimes when Joe Lieberman speaks I literally have to hold myself down (though here we see the border between excited and enraged is a thin one).