In the past year or so there has been a drastic upswing of Indian American — not to be confused with American Indian — representation on TV. Either it means we’re no longer bigoted, terrorist-fearing fatty Americans who can’t enjoy the company of our curry-flavored friends, or we’re just trying to put enough of them in the spotlight so we can unleash another racial vendetta against their kind.
Here are some examples so you can put down your gun:
Exhibit 1) The chick from The Office, who is man enough to be first on the list
Mindy Kaling
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Exhibit 2) Sanjay, the drug dealing college student from Weeds
Maulik Pancholy in Cablevision
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Exhibit 3) The same guy who plays Sanjay, but on 30 Rock
Maulik Pancholy on Primetime
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Exhibit 4) The guy from Parks and Recreation, who is actually funny for a comedian and fucks with his kid cousin by ratting him out to Kanye West when the kid discovers that Kanye steals samples
Aziz Ansari
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Exhibit 5) Kumar
Kal Penn, who was also on House but made the show kill him off via suicide
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Exhibit 6) Principal Figgins from GLEE
Iqbal Theba, who brings up the old Indian guy demographic
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Exhibit 7) The guy from Community, a show which won’t last very long
Danny Pudi
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Being straight edge as a kid is a great way to rebel against: puking, getting pregnant, and wrapping your parent’s car around a tree.
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I thought the guys from 2,3,4,7 were the same guy. Obviously, this is a trend that I could live without.
02.02.10 at 10:36 am
Are they still milking that equine corpse called Weeds? I can only imagine how stale and grating that gag has become. And what do you mean by “ANOTHER racial vendetta?” When and what was the first one?
02.02.10 at 10:43 am
Dude! Community is REALLY funny.
02.02.10 at 10:45 am
try post 9/11, idiot
02.02.10 at 10:57 am
abed on community– didn’t they once mention that the character’s dad is palestinian? because the actors are rly ttly indian
02.02.10 at 11:19 am
you forgot the part about nobody cares- exhibit Arv.
02.02.10 at 12:04 pm
There’s also Raj on Big Bang Theory
02.02.10 at 12:26 pm
aziz ansari is the goat
02.02.10 at 12:49 pm
RAAAAAAAANDY!
count ‘em, i got all eight!
02.02.10 at 1:36 pm
What about Apu on the Simpsons?
02.02.10 at 2:03 pm
I wish punjabbers would make up their own subcultures instead of just rippin off upper middle class whites. ( THATS MY JOB) i mean , like spicy latinos have like 5,000 different subcultures, u have to b super racist, like strom thurmonds grandpa racist, to confuse a mexican with a puerto rican, n evn azns have their weird shit going on. Come on , hindus, get creative!!
02.02.10 at 2:04 pm
Aziz Ansari is a hilarious tiny, tiny man.
02.02.10 at 2:06 pm
Aziz Ansari is Sri Lankan, not Indian.
02.02.10 at 2:51 pm
post 9/11? indians aren’t arabs retard. they dont even look or sound alike. thats like confusing a swarthy dago with a scandinavian
02.02.10 at 3:40 pm
Congratulations you just realized that white people have officially allowed you into the their circle of acceptable social peers with other Americanized Asians. Ew is right, you’ve done such a fine job at striving for whiteness while suppressing any sort of ethnic inclination while in front of them that you’ve earned a spot in their homogeneous cosmology of whiteness. Enjoy your elevation beyound entry level status in the American dream.
02.02.10 at 3:51 pm
i have such a boner for indian girls…..too bad they love white dudes or other indians.
02.02.10 at 5:12 pm
Dude, they do NOT like white dudes. They ONLY date other Indian people. And they have hairy arms. And Aziz Ansari is the funniest motherfucker doing stand-up today.
02.02.10 at 5:20 pm
Don’t do it.
02.02.10 at 6:02 pm
Mindy Kaling is hot
02.02.10 at 6:11 pm
Also, Aziz Ansari is Tamil, so he is Indian, just the weird kind. Same with Kaling.
02.02.10 at 6:12 pm
I wonder if Mindy Kaling has the same aversion to toothpaste and deodorant that the Indians that live around my town have. That’s a deal breaker.
02.02.10 at 7:44 pm
Mindy Kaling’s boyfriend is pretty cool.
02.02.10 at 10:45 pm
Aziz Ansari is of Indian ancestry, but his ethnicity is Tamil which could lead one to erroneously assume that he is of Sri Lankan descent. The actor from ‘Glee,’ however, is Pakistani.
02.02.10 at 11:11 pm
also: aasif mandvi from the daily show.
02.03.10 at 12:44 am
to “no thanks”: i dont have hairy arms and i have only been with white men because of the communities ive lived in. i want to explore all men equally but no one but white dudes ever even try to talk to me!!!! try it, we want it so bad!!!!!!
to “ew for reals yo”: yeah the media portrayal of indians is myopic and stereotypical, so the entire country must be that way too. we are creative you stupid asshole
02.03.10 at 1:47 am
p.s i live in san francisco and i see beautiful indian 10s that are sitting on some shitty date looking super bored with some computer programmer nerd. come save us!
02.03.10 at 1:55 am
@ injun girl: whoa, “stupid asshole”!!! Talk about creativity!!
02.03.10 at 2:28 am
Indians are the new “Little People”, they are giving midgets a run for their money.
02.03.10 at 12:09 pm
Don’t forget Anwar from Skins.
02.03.10 at 4:29 pm
ew,
Please look up “Macaulay’s Minute on Indian Education”.
Those whitewashed “Punjabbers” are the result of centuries of British colonialism.
02.03.10 at 6:08 pm
TTCUMS,
That never stopped the Irish from forgetting that they are the blacks of Europe and sticking it up the white man’s ass.
02.03.10 at 10:03 pm
“Blacks of Europe” my foot!
The Irish were willing participants in British imperialism in Asia and Africa. For example, General Michael O’Dwyer was involved in the 1919 Amritsar massacre.
If you asked me, the REAL blacks of Europe are the Gypsies…
02.04.10 at 11:29 am
You missed the really really big ones. Sendhil R in Heroes, Navin Andrews in Lost, Aasif Maandvi on the Dail Show
02.04.10 at 12:18 pm
I made out with a Bengali kid who was one of those topless models at the Hollister in SoHo. he was pretty hot, top 5.
02.06.10 at 3:28 pm