The thing is, I think that M.I.A. bit is probably Aziz’s most funny one as well (along with his long story about how he broke his arm). When he moves away from all South Asian material, I’m mad not because he’s a sell out or because he’s turned away from his roots, I’m mad because, to me, he’s not being as funny as he was before. Ultimately, I think that’s bad for his career.

Well do share. Don’t hoard them all for yourself! What are you, Guju?

That’s a joke people! A JOKE!

go super friends of the earth!

That seems to be a very loaded and oversimplified statement. Its interesting though, initially in some of Russell Peters early comedy (when he did small time shows in Canada in the late 90′s) he use to subvert racist discourses around South Asians which would be sometimes the basis of his comedy and sometimes would make it explicit that he makes fun of racism and racists to discredit them. But I guess now, I mean especially with his growing popularity his craft went another direction and his material may not so much be growing, developing, evolving… (can’t really find the right word but you know what I mean) especially with pressures from mainstream comedy. But to be honest, it may be that it took the likes of comedy of Russell Peters and others to pave the way and breakdown certain barriers in mainstream comedy for “Brown” comedians like Aziz Ansari to perform a unique craft like theirs. Although I do like his character on NBC, there was one episode where white, masculine, heterosexism serves to emasculate his character to the same degree as the character Jonathan on 30 Rock is repeatedly subjugated to. It is a “desi sidekick” thing at the end of the day on the office, 30 rock and parks and rec, I think there needs to be more character development though.

• “the residual Olympic effect speaking”

ah, its all good, both nation-states were developed by racist, white, colonial settler societies and not to mention still occupy stolen indigenous lands (which we are complicit in somewhat) so we can ease up on the olympic fever of nationalism… go team super friends of the earth! that should be our new slogan

fair enough, but many I know have said this but retroactively amended their statement.

Aziz is the type of funny guy that I’d want in my crew. He tells stories the way my friends tell each other stories.

I love his bit about running into M.I.A.

Coach, honey, it’s Courvoithier and the Ladies Man would like to buy you a fish sandwich.