Aziz Ansari
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Aziz Ansari is a stand-up comedian originally from South Carolina, but currently resides in New York City. He has been featured on Comedy Central's Premium Blend, as well as the stand-up compilation Invite Them Up. He has also been a commentator on VH1's Best Week Ever. Ansari received the 2005 award for Best Male Stand-up from the Emerging Comics of New York. He is heavily involved with the Upright Citizen's Brigade for which he hosts the weekly stand-up show, Crash Test. Ansari has a role in the movie School for Scoundrels. He has been featured in various lists published in Rolling Stone Magazine and The New Yorker, which include the year's best comedians.[citation needed] Ansari is a member of the sketch comedy group Human Giant, which according to his website has been signed to do eight episodes of a sketch show for MTV, scheduled to debut in the first quarter of 2007. Ansari is of South Indian Tamil heritage.
Ansari is considered to be part of the new wave of South-Asian entertainers who are making their mark in Hollywood. He joins the ranks of entertainers such as M Night Shyamalan, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kal Penn, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Mindy Kaling, to name a few.
[edit] External links
- Aziz Ansari's Website
- The Human Giant
- Interview From November of 2005
- Interview in Gelf Magazine; March 2005
- Aziz Ansari at the Internet Movie Database
