Aziz Ansari

Hate him.

I love him. I love all the "Parks and Rec" people, actually.

I'd say it's more of a personal humor thing, though, OP.

Hate him too

I agree with r2's second statement, it really is your personal humor. I love shows like 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, Portlandia, and other "absurdist" single-camera shows. My husband hates all of those but loves 3-camera comedies, especially ones with slapstick and toilet humor.

What R2 and R4 said. I think he's hilarious, but it's not a generational thing.

I like him.

What sort of loser even talks to low-level under 30 employees at work?

I'm 51 and think he's hilarious. Never watched P&R, though.

I like all the single camera shows & especially P & R, but he is my least favorite on the show. That said, I think he is SUPPOSED to be our least favorite.

I don't know anything about his comedy, but I think he's adorable. I want to snuggle with him naked under a fluffy down comforter on a cold night.

r9, I agree with you about liking the single-camera comedies, and I get the fact that Ansari is supposed to be annoying and unlikable on P&R -- I just don't think he's good at it. The rest of the actors are a pretty skilled ensemble, and his whole thing is mugging.

I think his stand-up is pretty hacky but I have to be honest - he makes me laugh. My dad who is pushing 60 and is definitely not a cool-dad type LOVES him, a fact which I can make neither heads nor tails of.

He's interesting.

I've just seen his stand-up on Comedy Central though.

What little I've seen his comedy has these themes:

1) His nephew Harris, "fat, brown, and on the ground."

2) His hobnobbing with other celebrities, like JayZ, Beyonce, and R. Kelly, etc.

3) His "Randy" schtick.

4) His problems dating.

Might wear thin quickly -- time will tell.

I think he's pretty funny. I was watching his latest stand up special last night and laughed out loud a couple of times.

His sensuality is overpowering and causes me not to be able to pay much attention to his performance.

The only comedian I've ever laughed at is Eddie Izzard, and I'm under 30.

I think his comedy acts are pretty funny. What's not funny is that in every talk show appearance he's done he just does his act. Word for Word. Every time.

I am old enough to be the OP's daddy and I think he is hilarious. He is also cute, I want him

I think he's hilarious. Also, r10.

He went to my high school. I don't find him amusing.

r10, I would do that as well. I think he's adorable, especially those big eyes.

I think he's very funny and charming on Parks & Rec and also in the movie 30 Minutes or Less. However, I heard two snippets from his stand-up act on comedy radio, and they were both dreadful.

I think he is funny, especially on Parks and Recreation (especially the first season). I like his comedy specials OK, but I prefer him in TV shows, movies, and on talk shows. I think he is cute and would like to cuddle with him, too. He has gay friends, too, that he talks about in his standup routine so that is a plus.

He's horrible, but we need an Arab-American comic to ease the guilt over our actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

NBC has more East Asian sitcom characters than African American sitcom characters.

No thread about his epic Twitter fight with Rupert Murdoch?

and this one, which started it all

No one called out R24 for referring to him as an Arab-American?

He's like a peppy little Pakistani lesbian.

I could listen to him for hours and never so much as start to laugh. And that high-pitched whiny voice and self-adulation without self-awareness gives me a new appreciation for that comic genius Dane Cook.

I just want to eat his ass, like Marnie on Girls.

Is he Muslim? His name is suspect.

I want his pink and brown.

I enjoy his comedy and I'm in the over 60 club. Fuck you Harris, I do exist.

Not funny. Also, the fact that he only relates to black men, and compares himself to them, is a little strange.

I love Parks & Rec but Ansari wore really thin really quickly. His whole shtick is about being young and trendy -- it's his character on P&R, it's in those Netflix blurbs about his standup, it's everywhere. So tiresome.

Parks and Rec got so bad. I tried watching the premiere last night and it was unwatchable.

Same here, R30.

Gay?

Is he a terrorist?

R39 Yes but closeted. Never seen him on anything except the James Franco roast; he was reasonably funny on that.

I mentioned in another thread I used to fuck an Indian guy in college (and, no, his cum didn't taste like curry). Some of them are hot.

R39 & r41 datalounge’s famously infallible gaydar and impeccable “insider sources” loooooool

There’s currently another thread about him raping some girl

loooooool = laughing out out out out out out out loud

I'm a Gen Xer. I never watched Parks and Rec. But, I generally like Master of None.

OP, it's not just a generational thing. I'm in my early 30s. I don't like him, either. Well, let me rephrase that, I thought he was perfectly fine in a small, supporting, novelty role in Parks & Rec, but he does NOT have the chops to carry a show and I'm truly puzzled by how acclaimed Master of None remains. And, yeah, his standup is not funny.

He must have casting couched to become more famous because he is a funny looking guy. Someone is really pushing him and trying hard to make him happen. I hate when mediocre celebs are promoted than actual talented celebs. He is really not cute

Is he uncut?

Of course he is cut, he was raised Muslim.

Humourlessness reputation*

Oops wrong thread

i'm watching Master of None right now (late to the party, yes). I find him and the series so MEH i can't believe it's so successful. He's not particularly funny. he's not original. Not witty. No nothing. It's just... ok. Haven't seen him in anything else.

Would drink his cum.

Young people are compelled to lie and say that he is funny so that they don't get labeled with the r word. Older people can be more honest about Ansari's "humor".

I thought he was best on Parks and Recs when in smaller doses. He could be funny, but he could wear thin if on too much and a couple of his story lines went on too long and became repetitive (I do think he is talented though).

I for the most part liked Parks and Recs, although the middle years were the best. The first season was a little weak and it probably should have ended when Leslie Ann was elected to city councill or had her being on city council be the last season. I never did get through the final season.

I wasn't impressed with his stand up at all, I thought his bits on Park & Rec were fine, and was pleasantly surprised by him during an interview with Marc Maron on Maron's podcast awhile back. The current media/social media outcry over an unpleasant sexual encounter is obnoxious and I feel bad for the guy. Its stupid.

I think when he first came out, his early stand-up was hilarious.

His Master of None show is funny when it is about his parents and everyday things he encounters in life but when it is about his love life, it's tedious (oh, poor little me, the beautiful white girl doesn't love me).

His obsession with white girls is pathetic. The cause of his current problems.

I think his show appeals to the kind of bros who like 'Big Bang Theory'. It's not so much a comedy as a series of cliches blandly presented one after another. It would help if there were a laugh track so you knew when it was supposed to be funny.

Terribly unfunny, the weakest link in P&R.

Also, he looks like a meerkat on meth.

Not real familiar with him, but the current smear is disgraceful. He's no where near Weinstein, Moore, Trump, Clinton. The woman couldn't just say no? Please.

agreed, r61.

[quote] NBC has more East Asian sitcom characters than African American sitcom characters.

Which group has a larger population overall worldwide?

[quote] I think his show appeals to the kind of bros who like 'Big Bang Theory'. It's not so much a comedy as a series of cliches blandly presented one after another. It would help if there were a laugh track so you knew when it was supposed to be funny.

Switching to a single-camera format will not make bad scripts good, and even the best ones lack the rewatchability factor of shows such as I Love Lucy, Golden Girls, and Mary Tyler Moore that I never get tired of.

Americans never stopped wanting network sitcoms, we just wanted good ones. Since the 1990s most of the truly innovative non-animated shows have been anywhere but the three networks. Nobody good wants to deal with that level of interference anymore if they don't have to.

[quote]NBC has more East Asian sitcom characters than African American sitcom characters.

Who? I'm having a hard time thinking of even one, unless you count Manny Jacinto, and he's really a Pacific Islander.

I find him to be insufferable, much a product of his upbringing.

The funny thing is in Master of None, he complains how the Entertainment industry stereotypes Indian men. Well, he isn't doing such a good job with the fellow Indian women who he appears not to like on the show, preferring the white meat; he seems pretty self-loathing.

I hope the babe story was a lesson learned by this idiot.

R61 I agree completely. Totally a false equivalency with regards to the other cases (Cosby, Weinstein, etc.) and really hurts the cause of women who are truly harassed (or worse.)

Meh. He's aight.

He was my worst date EVER!

After that bad date story ---which is completely embarrassing--- how can he do any shows or stand-ups? What do you joke about? I'd lay low for a couple of years.

the bad date story is the best piece of american comedy of the last 5 years. Too bad it was not intentional.

[quote] the bad date story is the best piece of american comedy

I think it would make a great comedy: starring Meryl Streep as Ashleigh Banfield, that Asian chick from The Last Jedi as Katie Way and Saorise Ronan as Abby, the Indian guy from Silicon Valley as Aziz

R73, along those lines, Ansari could "reclaim" the narrative and make use of it in his act. Very meta. I think there is a lot of sympathy out there for him. And rightly so.

[quote]the Indian guy from Silicon Valley as Aziz

Kumail Nanjiani, now more famous for "The Big Sick," is Pakistani, not Indian.

i just watched Season 2 of MoN. The Bobby Cannavale characther is obviously based on Anthony Bourdain and he's a SEX PEST!!! Was Aziz tryin' to tell us something?????

I can't stand Parks & Rec (including him), but Master of None is pretty good, if only for birthing Lil Funions.

i can't stand the actor who played his best friend, you know the fat giant who wears hotpants a lot. he's a terrible actor, and the character is a retard.

well, the big best friend makes Aziz looks like a little rat. The height disparity is a hoot.

Close enough, R75. He can play Indian.

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