Seven Questions About Parks and Recreation's Series Premiere

By Rachael Maddux at 7:00 AM on April 12, 2009

Thursday saw the debut of NBC's new comedy Parks and Recreation, starring Amy Poelher and Aziz Ansari as as a local government administrators every bit as ambitious and incompetent as one might expect from the likes of series creators Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, who adapted The Office for American audiences. Parks employs a similar mockumentary style, playing up humdrum moments and workaday minutia with expository interviews, steadicam field shots and pervasive awkwardness (which The Office does well) and already employing brazen silliness in lieu of plot and wide-eyed camera smirks in lieu of punchlines (which The Office increasingly does...  read more

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Rashida Jones featured in new series starring Amy Poehler

By Loren Lankford at 10:41 AM on November 25, 2008

OK, OK...so, its not an Office spin-off (like we previously believed). But it is still a new NBC comedy series starring Amy Poehler and Aziz Ansari, and it did just take one step closer to being like The Office by casting one of the its former stars, Rashida Jones....  read more

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Aziz Ansari launches Glow in the Dark tour

By Henry Freedland at 2:03 PM on October 23, 2008

If the name "Aziz Ansari" only faintly rings a bell, that's about to change. The Human Giant co-creater and star reprises his role in Flight of the Conchords with the second season, coming Jan. 2009 (he plays a racist fruit vendor who can't tell New Zealanders from Australians, for the uninitiated). He's soon joining the Judd Apatow comedy machine, appearing in Funny People, Observe and Report with Seth Rogen and I Love You, Man with Paul Rudd. He's starring in the upcoming sitcom from the writers of The Office with an SNL-departed Amy Poehler. And come this Fall/Winter, he's taking...  read more

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Amy Poehler rumored to join Office spin-off

By Veronica Sepe at 7:00 AM on July 17, 2008

Write this down: spin-offs are apparently the new black next season. We've got teen-soap spin-offs, cartoon spin-offs, and spin-offs we don't really know anything about...  read more

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Office spin-off show picks up Aziz Ansari

By Adam Daniels at 1:14 PM on June 16, 2008

Chances are, not many are as thankful for the revamping of the NBC sitcom than Aziz Ansari. In the past two weeks, Ansari has signed on for parts in not just one, but two, of the network’s comedies that once again made Thursday nights “Must See TV.” ...  read more

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Aziz Ansari to join Scrubs cast

By Kasia Galazka at 11:09 AM on May 27, 2008

Comedian Aziz Ansari, or one-third of MTV's Human Giant whom we still fondly remember as an indie-clerk asshole, will be one of three new interns (i.e. fresh, tauntable meat for Dr. Cox) on Scrubs. TV Guide reports Ansari will join the Sacred Heart staff along with...  read more

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