NBC "Outsourced" comedy to India :)

A friend commented about the new NBC sitcom, Outsourced, which is set to debut in fall.  I told her that it is yet another instance of Indian-Americans being quite adept at merging with the American mainstream!
In the comedic world, it all started with Russell Peters:

If the NBC comedy Outsourced—the show being billed as "the Indian Office"—is successful when it premieres in September, the cast will be only the latest collection of Indian-American comedians to achieve fame on U.S. screens and stages. Aziz Ansari, Kal Penn, Mindy Kaling, and Danny Pudi—all have in recent years become successes in Hollywood, in the process redefining—again—the idea of what a typical American comic looks like.

But these young comics aren't the first Indian-Americans to find pop culture success. Russell Peters came before them, as the first Indian comedian to make it big in the Western world.

Reading all this "funny stuff" led me through a few links to this neat collection of US magazine covers with South Asian people/themes put together by SAJA

Joel Stein's Indianized New Jersey

I have read Joel Stein's columns when he wrote for the LA Times--some were really good, and many fell flat.  Now, Stein has become the news himself not because of a brilliant column, but otherwise.
At Time, where Stein has a regular gig , he has written a piece that is neither funny nor critical nor even informative.  In fact, it sounds very high-schoolish.  He does a very poor job of joking about things that, say, Russell Peters has already joked about and joked really, really, well.

The WSJ has a round up of some of the reactions to this column.  The title of that piece says it all: Indians Unamused by Time’s ‘Edison’
Back in India, Pranay Gupte has authored an opinion piece with a title that is meant to be more catchy than anything else: Will Indians face a backlash in the U.S.? 

The future population thanks to globalization :-)