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3 | Aziz Ismail Ansari (born February 23, 1983 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an Indian-American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer most known for his role as Tom Haverford on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' and as the creator and star of the Creator/{{Netflix}} original series ''Series/MasterOfNone''. |
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5 | Ansari began performing stand-up comedy in the early 2000s after moving to New York City to study marketing at NYU. His act focuses a lot on mundane everyday activities, pop culture, technology, and his experiences around celebrities. |
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7 | Apart from ''Parks'', his TV work also consisted of co-creating and starring in ''Series/HumanGiant'', which ran for two seasons on [=MTV=], and appearing in several episodes of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. In 2009, he played a small role as an obnoxious stand-up comedian named Randy in Creator/JuddApatow's ''Film/FunnyPeople'', and subsequently signed a deal with Apatow to write and star in three new movies. In 2011, Ansari starred in the comedy film ''Film/ThirtyMinutesOrLess''. |
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9 | For his work on ''Master of None'', Ansari received seven Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series -- making him the first person of South Asian descent to be nominated in ''any'' Lead Actor category. He won two Emmys for writing each of the series' two seasons. |
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11 | On the night of January 13, 2018, the website Babe.net published an article [[https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355 in which a photographer accused Ansari of sexually assaulting her after a date]], putting his career as a comedian in jeopardy. The description of the alleged incident, however, subsequently led to discussions on [[QuestionableConsent what is really considered sexual assault]]. While he did briefly retreat from the public eye, Ansari resumed performing stand-up comedy in May of that year. |
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14 | !!Related Tropes |
15 | * ActorAllusion: A short clip from the MTV Movie Awards has Aziz playing "swagga coach" to Creator/ZachGalifianakis. As mentioned in this trope page, he has a major in ''marketing''. |
16 | * BitingTheHandHumor: "Most shows on {{Creator/MTV}} aren't really my cup of tea. Mostly because I don't like giant pieces of shit in my tea." (Coming from a guy who had a show on [=MTV=] for two years and subsequently hosted the network's Movie Awards.) |
17 | * BlackComedy: More prevalent on ''Series/HumanGiant'' than in his own stand-up, particularly in the "Shutterbugz" sketches, which featured himself and Creator/RobHuebel as nasty child-actor agents. |
18 | * BrickJoke: Aziz has a habit of making elements from previous jokes pop up hilariously in the context of another one: |
19 | --> "We get outside of the airport, I take out the gun I had from the previous joke, [and then] I aim it at the puppies, bang bang! [...] I know some of you are thinking, 'Oh no the puppies, why the poor puppies?' I didn't really shoot any puppies, you're being stupid." |
20 | * CasanovaWannabe: Not so much in RealLife, but most of his film and television characters are variations of this trope. ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'''s Tom Haverford is a prime example. |
21 | * HiddenDepths: He graduated from New York University, majoring in marketing. |
22 | * LargeHam: His usual mode of operation. Turned up to eleven with his ''Film/FunnyPeople'' character RAAAAAAAANDY. |
23 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: Anyone familiar with Ansari's style of stand-up knows that he does this a lot near or during punchlines. |
24 | * RunningGag: In both of his Creator/ComedyCentral specials, he's imitated Music/RKelly. |
25 | * SelfDeprecation: Does this once in a while. |
26 | * SharpDressedMan: Often wears fine suits and makes fashion a large part of his various characters. |
27 | * StarMakingRole: His role as Tom on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''. |
28 | * StylisticSuck: All of his jokes as RAAAAAAAANDY are shock value and chauvinist bravado over any real substance, with the addition of lighting effects, smoke machines and occasional comments by a DJ/hype man. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKwiz7451OY Should be seen to be appreciated.]] |
29 | * TheyJustDontGetIt: He says he overheard a waitress repeatedly trying to explain to Music/FiftyCent the difference between grape juice and grapefruit juice, after he asked for the latter and got the former. |
30 | --> Yeah, I get it, grapefruit, applefruit, orangefruit... |
31 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was up for a role in ''Film/Transformers2007'', but passed because he found the stipulation that he had to use a fake Indian accent degrading. |
32 | * WikiWalk: Discusses how he was doing something important on the computer, and ended up wondering whether or not ''Film/{{Home Alone 2|Lost In New York}}'' made more money than ''Film/HomeAlone1''. This led to him finding out that Creator/JoePesci recorded an album as a little kid. |
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