You crazy for this one, Jay.... CONTINUE READING AZIZ ANSARI ON THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN»
Posted on October 14, 2009 in Late Night
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Tags: Aziz Ansari | David Letterman | Kanye West | Parks And Recreation | The Late Show
It's official: your mom loves him.... CONTINUE READING AZIZ ANSARI INTERVIEWED ON NPR'S ALL THINGS CONSIDERED»
Posted on September 29, 2009 in Behind The Scenes, Interviews
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Tags: All Things Considered | Aziz Ansari | NPR | Parks And Recreation
They say that art lies in taking something very personal and making it universal. Or whatever. The idea is that in exploring life as you understand it, from your own unique perspective, you actually find a way to relate to... CONTINUE READING THE VIDEOGUM MOVIE CLUB: FUNNY PEOPLE»
Posted on August 3, 2009 in The Videogum Movie Club
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Tags: Adam Sandler | Aubrey Plaza | Aziz Ansari | Comedy Nerds | Death | Funny People | Health | Jason Schwartzman | Jonah Hill | Judd Apatow | Seth Rogen
Raaaaaaaandy is right: the people of Darfur are not getting their dick sucked every day.... CONTINUE READING RAAAAAAAANDY'S TOURGASM: PART THREE»
Posted on July 27, 2009 in Viral Marketing
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Tags: Aziz Ansari | Funny People | Raaaaaaaandy!
Zune, whatever that is, has teamed up with Mean Magazine to create a series of movie parodies starring odd pairings of fames with unlikely movie choices. Looks like Mr. Zune took a course in What The Internet Wants at the... CONTINUE READING HUMAN GIANT AND RENO 911! REMAKE POINT BREAK»
Posted on July 21, 2009 in Fan Art, Parodies
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Tags: Aziz Ansari | Ben Garant | Human Giant | Reno 911! | Rob Huebel | Thomas Lennon
Here's a joke: what's the difference between Raaaaaaaandy and Dane Cook? I don't hate Raaaaaaaandy or find him insufferable, boring, untalented, and unfunny. Also he is fictional. BONUS PUNCHLINE!... CONTINUE READING RIIIIIIIIDLE ME THIS»
Posted on July 20, 2009 in Stand Up Comedy, Viral Marketing
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Tags: Aziz Ansari | Dane Cook | Funny People | Raaaaaaaandy!
Uh oh, trouble is brewing for Judd Apatow's upcoming Funny People. A Videogum commenter writes: I've seen the movie. You will be disappointed. Everyone will be disappointed. Yikes! I hope that we are all not disappointed, but I will admit... CONTINUE READING WILL DJ OL' YOUNGIN' SAVE JUDD APATOW'S FUNNY PEOPLE?»
Posted on July 13, 2009 in Viral Marketing
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Tags: Aziz Ansari | Funny People | Raaaaaaaandy!
I have to say, Judd Apatow's upcoming Funny People is killing it in the Viral Marketing Department (with the possible exception of that talking Adam Sandler head on a baby's body clip, which was supposed to be awful, and it... CONTINUE READING FUNNY PEOPLE IS TAKING HOLLYWOOD TO VIRAL MARKETING SCHOOL»
Posted on July 1, 2009 in Viral Marketing
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Tags: Adam Sandler | Aziz Ansari | Eric Bana | Funny People | Jason Schwartzman | Jonah Hill | Judd Apatow | Leslie Mann | Seth Rogen
James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem attended the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday. Not as the celebrated leader of a great band that he is, but as Aziz Ansari's semi-anonymous plus one. And then he blogged about it. Sell out. ... CONTINUE READING JAMES MURPHY IS PLAYING IN MTV'S HOUSE»
Posted on June 3, 2009 in Awards, Behind The Scenes
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Tags: Aziz Ansari | Hollywood | James Murphy | MTV Movie Awards | My Morning Jacket
Comedian Aziz Ansari of Parks And Recreation, Observe And Report, Funny People, His Blog, his Twitter, his stand-up comedy, and being friends with Kanye West had a refreshing interview on Jimmy Kimmel Friday night in which he laid out the... CONTINUE READING AZIZ ANSARI TALKS ABOUT HIS FRIEND KANYE ON JIMMY KIMMEL»
Posted on May 11, 2009 in Interviews, Late Night, Stand Up Comedy
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Tags: Aziz Ansari | Funny People | Jimmy Kimmel | Kanye West | Observe And Report | Parks And Recreation | Slumdog Millionaire
A (presumably) Mac-snob blogger actually called the Indiana Parks And Rec people to confirm that they're way not cool enough to use Mac computers the way the actors do on the show. (Also: most nurses are probably not as hot... CONTINUE READING PARKS AND RECREATION'S PUZZLING MAC PRODUCT PLACEMENT»
Posted on April 28, 2009 in Behind The Scenes, Sitcoms
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Tags: Amy Poehler | Apple | Aziz Ansari | Girl Talk | Lemonade | Parks And Recreation | Rashida Jones
We now have two episodes (of a six-episode first season) of Parks And Recreation on which to judge it. This week we met Leslie's mother, learned the extent of Leslie's plan to be the first female President, and, disappointingly, saw... CONTINUE READING SO, IS PARKS AND RECREATION GETTING BETTER?»
Posted on April 17, 2009 in Sitcoms
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Tags: Amy Poehler | Aubrey Plaza | Aziz Ansari | Chris Pratt | Parks And Recreation | Paul Schneider | Rashida Jones
gabe: did you like parks and recreation? gabe: be honest gabe: do not do that thing you do gabe: where you pretend to like something you don't like gabe: out of some kind of moral obligation lindsay: well, I was... CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: PARKS AND RECREATION»
Posted on April 10, 2009 in Friday Fight, Sitcoms
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Tags: Amy Poehler | Aziz Ansari | Parks And Recreation | Rashida Jones
Parks And Recreation, the show about you already know everything it's about starring you already know who it stars, premiered last night. (If you missed it, the full episode is on Hulu.) It seems like the general consensus is "This... CONTINUE READING SO WHAT DID WE THINK OF PARKS AND RECREATION?»
Posted on April 10, 2009 in Sitcoms, Spoilers
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Tags: Amy Poehler | Aubrey Plaza | Aziz Ansari | Parks And Recreation | Rashida Jones | The Office
And it's called "Knope Knows." We all hope the show will be great, it's just funny that someone has poured time and energy into a fan site for something they have yet to see.... CONTINUE READING THERE IS ALREADY A NON-OFFICIAL FAN SITE FOR PARKS AND RECREATION»
Posted on April 3, 2009 in Sitcoms
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Tags: Amy Poehler | Aziz Ansari | Parks And Recreation | Rashida Jones
This weekend's Videogum Movie Club selection, Paul Rudd and Jason Segel's I Love You, Man, came in second at the box office to Nicolas Cage's Knowing (though it still did pretty well.) How is Hollywood supposed to take America seriously... CONTINUE READING THE VIDEOGUM MOVIE CLUB: I LOVE YOU, MAN»
Posted on March 23, 2009 in The Videogum Movie Club
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Tags: Andy Samberg | Aziz Ansari | I Love You Man | J.K. Simmons | Jaime Pressley | Jane Curtin | Jason Segel | Joe Lo Truglio | Jon Favreau | Knowing | Nicholas Cage | Paul Rudd | Rashida Jones | Rob Huebel | Tom Lennon
Well played, Mr. Ansari. It's actually weird that more fames don't do this. Did Aziz just crack the code? Every morning Americans line up at five in the morning to stand behind Matt Lauer holding pink signs covered in... CONTINUE READING AZIZ ANSARI USES PAPARAZZI FOOTAGE OF KANYE TO PROMOTE PARKS AND RECREATION»
Posted on March 12, 2009 in Viral Marketing
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Tags: Amy Poehler | Aziz Ansari | Kanye West | Parks And Recreation | TMZ
The red band trailer for Seth Rogen's new unfortunately-about-a-mall-cop comedy, Observe And Report, came out this weekend. They seem to be really trying to distance themselves from Blart: Hmmm. Is it supposed to look kind of really dark? Maybe it's... CONTINUE READING OBSERVE AND REPORT: THE KIND-OF-DEPRESSING RED BAND TRAILER»
Posted on February 9, 2009 in Trailer
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Tags: Anna Faris | Aziz Ansari | Observe And Report | Seth Rogen
An audience member/extra named Lawrence who attended/participated in a comedy show filmed last night for Judd Apatow's Adam Sandler-starring comedian movie Funny People tried not to break the house rule ("please don't go home and review the show on the... CONTINUE READING THE FIRST TUMBLR REVIEW OF JUDD APATOW'S FUNNY PEOPLE IS IN»
Posted on January 14, 2009 in Behind The Scenes
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Tags: Adam Sandler | Aziz Ansari | Funny People | Judd Apatow
Scrubs is back tonight at 9pm on a new network (ABC), with Human Giant's Aziz Ansari guest-starring in the first few episodes as an "inappropriate" intern named Ed. We've been eagerly awaiting this since it was first announced last Spring,... CONTINUE READING SCRUBS RETURNS TONIGHT WITH AZIZ ANSARI!»
Posted on January 6, 2009
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Tags: Aziz Ansari | Human Giant | Scrubs
The project formerly known as "The Office Spinoff" has signed on Rashida Jones as a co-star along with Poehler and Aziz Ansari, playing "a nurse whose boyfriend has a strange injury." Okay, whatever, just make the show!... CONTINUE READING RASHIDA JONES JOINS AMY POEHLER'S NEW SITCOM»
Posted on November 19, 2008 in Casting Calls
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Tags: Amy Poehler | Aziz Ansari | Rashida Jones | The Office
If Bobb'e J. Thompson, the little force of nature who was one of the five best parts of the fall's best comedy movie, Role Models, looks familiar, it might be because he was in the Shutterbugs sketches on Human Giant!... CONTINUE READING THE HILARIOUS LITTLE BOY FROM ROLE MODELS WAS ON HUMAN GIANT»
Posted on November 11, 2008 in Sketch Comedy, Where Were They Then?
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Tags: Aziz Ansari | Bobb'e J. Thompson | Human Giant | Paul Rudd | Role Models | Seann William Scott
This picture, which was obviously taken last night because of Heidi's dress (kill me, please), had better be extremely ironic. This is not going to be a thing: Hey, whatever Human Giant guys, I guess if I saw Heidi and... CONTINUE READING HUMAN GIANT + HEIDI AND SPENCER = NOOOOOOOO»
Posted on August 19, 2008 in Bad Idea Jeans, Behind The Scenes
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Tags: Aziz Ansari | Coachella | Heidi Montag | Human Giant | Paul Scheer | Rob Huebel | Spencer Pratt | The Hills
Aziz Ansari has been obsessed with this Diddy Burger King commercial he saw a few weeks ago and wanted to share with the world, and last night he put it up on his blog (along with a plea to star... CONTINUE READING TELL THEM DIDDY SAID BURGER KING IS OPEN LATE»
Posted on August 6, 2008 in Commercials
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Tags: Aziz Ansari | Diddy
This past weekend at Comic Con, the Human Giant guys showed up at a Pineapple Express panel and took over the Q&A with questions about Frank Miller, Frank Miller, swords, Superbad 2: Full Throttle, and weed. Via Paul Scheer's blog,... CONTINUE READING HUMAN GIANT ASKS JUDD APATOW ABOUT FRANK MILLER, WEED»
Posted on July 31, 2008 in Sketch Comedy
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Tags: Aziz Ansari | Human Giant | Judd Apatow | Paul Scheer | Rob Huebel | Seth Rogen | The Room | Tommy Wiseau
Carrie Prejean turned the video camera off, put on some clothes, and stepped out of her house. It was a beautiful day outside. The air smelled like apples, and the late morning light hit the world in just such a...
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If you are a sassy and sarcastic young man in an American sitcom who represents the sitcom writer's desire that a nerdy Jewish teenager can somehow be the desirable romantic hero in this world, then eventually you will get a...
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I shouldn't even be here right now. I SHOULD BE GETTING INTO MY COSTUME! If I don't hurry, my facepaint won't be dry before I get to the MOONVIE theater, and everyone will be like "hahah, you look like you're...
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The Challenge: I had to go on a 3.5 hour bus tour of totally random TV and film locations in New York City. Alone, and wearing a specific ridiculous tshirt. And I had to find someone to take my picture...
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Uh. OK. Well, first let's address what this movie did well, like the disappointed parents we are (or at least that I am), recognizing that the negative feedback won't be useful or constructive if it isn't preceded by something positive....
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