Aziz Ansari

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Aziz Ansari

Born February 23, 1983 (1983-02-23) (age 25)
Columbia, SC, U.S.
Occupation Actor
Comedian
Writer
Producer
[www.azizisbored.com Official website]
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Aziz Ansari (born February 23, 1983) is an American actor/comedian. He is best known as one of the stars of the critically acclaimed sketch comedy series Human Giant on MTV, for which he is also a writer and executive producer. The show recently completed its second season.

He has also appeared on the HBO series Flight of the Conchords. He's currently filming roles in the films Observe and Report with Seth Rogen and I Love You, Man with Paul Rudd and Jason Segel.

He currently resides in Los Angeles.

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[edit] Standup

Ansari began his career performing standup comedy in New York City while attending NYU. In 2005, Rolling Stone included him in their annual "Hot List" as their choice for the "Hot Standup" and he won the Jury Award for "Best Standup" at HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO. He occasionally tours colleges and music festivals and has also toured with the Comedians of Comedy and Flight of the Conchords.

[edit] Human Giant

Around the summer of 2005, Ansari began collbarting with fellow comedians Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer (both of the famed improv troupe Respecto Montalban), as well as director Jason Woliner to make short films. The first series created by the group was Shutterbugs, which followed Huebel and Ansari as cutthroat child talent agents. This was followed up by the Illusionators, which starred Ansari and Scheer as Criss Angel style goth magicians. In the summer of 2006, MTV greenlit a sketch series from the group which debuted April 5th, 2007.


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[edit] Personal Life

Ansari graduated in 2004 from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, where he majored in marketing. He graduated high school from the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics. He is also vehemently opposed to homophobia, racism, sexism, and general injustice.

[edit] Favorite Foods

Ansari loves eating and talking about food. He has mentioned and posted photos of food from the following NY restaurants on his website numerous times - Market Table, Momofuku Ssam, Dell'anima, Shake Shack, Caracas, Hill Country BBQ, and Little Owl. Restaurants in LA he's mentioned include - AOC, Lucques, Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles, Yuca's, Asanebo, Izakaya by Katsu-ya, Joan's on Third, and Larchmont Wine and Cheese. He has also mentioned a strong affinity for Chick-Fil-A, which are unfortunately no where to be found in his primary residences of New York and LA. Most recently, he's expressed much frustration over the inability to secure a reservation at New York's Momofuku Ko, whose online reservation system has proved most troublesome for eager food aficionados. On May 07, 2008, Aziz posted on his blog about his recent dining experience at the aforementioned Momofuku Ko Restaurant, here.

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