Comments on: The Indian American Comedy Invasion!

By: Har Ri

Har Ri — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 04:31:57 +0000

Let’s not forget Vik Sahay on NBC’s Chuck!!!!

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I LOVE THIS BLOG!!!

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:10:17 +0000

@MacLu, Articles on very subjects we write do tend to pop up elsewhere shortly after we do it

By: MacLu

MacLu — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:51:51 +0000

An article on this very topic suddenly appeared on Slate.
Does the author read YOMYOMF perhaps? http://www.slate.com/id/2255937/

By: Amit

Amit — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:59:43 +0000

“Though I think it’s interesting that all of the dramatic actors I just listed are foreigners while the comic actors are Indian American”

Sendhil Ramamurthy was born in Chicago, IL

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Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:30:42 +0000

[...] I wrote about the new wave of Indian American comedic actors a few weeks ago, I totally forgot to include the brilliant Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:15:31 +0000

Aziz Ansari is the world’s greatest person. Hilarious in everything he does- glad he’s finally getting the recognition he deserves (not just in this post- but in general).

By: MacLu

MacLu — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:46:16 +0000

I agree with all the points you made, and will add that in the 90s, the prevailing theme among Asian American activists was that we are American just like you, Whitey. Nowadays, there seems to be more focus on a distinct Asian American culture (Azn Pryde, if you will) and among East Asians, Koreans seem to have the most cultural pride and are least willing to conform to societal norms.

Americans don’t want to watch Asians that are entirely interchangeable with Whites. And Koreans have just done a better job at asserting themselves culturally than Japanese or Chinese Americans.

I can’t really speak for Indian Americans as I don’t know that many, but some of it has to do with increased contact with India, including outsourcing. I’ll venture to say too that post 9/11, America was somewhat desperate to show that they were not entirely biased against all brown, swarthy turban-wearing people. Indian American comics came along with “getting stopped at the airport” jokes at exactly the right time and allowed Whites to laugh at their own discomfort with people who looked like terrorists.

By: Edward Hong

Edward Hong — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:38:20 +0000

Thanks for writing this…it is good to read articles that point out the disconnect between the South Asian and East Asian communities but at the same time, making the effort to bridge the entire diverse Asian American communities on a common note. Indian or Korean, I am always in full support of my fellow Asian peers whenever they get major success on the big and small screen…

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:51:37 +0000

Thanks, Shaun, and you’re absolutely right about Ramamurthy so my mistake there. I would say though that I think both Koreans and Indians/South Asians did start with stereotypes in the sense that the media images related to these groups (or in the case of Indians, media images of those who “look” like them) were/are strongly tied into the popular and oftentimes negative media images of Koreans from the riots and Middle Easterners from 9/11. But you’re absolutely right in that many of these artists who may have used that as a starting point were able to “flip the stereotype.” It’ll be interesting to see where all this leads. I’ve been on record on this blog as saying I think we’ll see a lot of positive things come out of this in the next few years.