Jon Stewart, the lousy actor :)

Thanks to Hulu, I was watching old sitcoms .... and Jon Stewart pops up in an episode of Newsradio!  I am glad that he found a better avenue for his creativity :)

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

One less Golden Girl :-(

Bea Arthur, star of 'Golden Girls' and 'Maude,' dies at 86

"Thank you for being a friend ...."