{"id":5755,"date":"2009-05-07T02:18:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T07:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5755"},"modified":"2009-05-07T00:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T05:00:51","slug":"mindy_kaling_co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/mindy_kaling_co\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Tina Fey. But Brown."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/Mindy Kaling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Mindy Kaling.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/Mindy Kaling-thumb.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mindy_Kaling\">Mindy Kaling<\/a> could quite possibly be the next brown Tina Fey.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Under terms of the two-year, seven-figure deal, Kaling will continue to write for and appear on &#8220;The Office&#8221; next season while simultaneously developing a comedy in which she would also star.\n<p>\nMuch like &#8220;30 Rock&#8221; star-exec producer Fey, Kaling is known for both her writing and acting skills. Behind the scenes, Kaling is a co-exec producer on &#8220;The Office,&#8221; having written notable episodes including &#8220;The Dundies,&#8221; &#8220;Diwali&#8221; and this season&#8217;s &#8220;Golden Ticket.&#8221;\n<p>\nIn kicking around different development ideas, Kaling said she&#8217;s drawn to workplace comedies but is also interested in buddy shows in the vein of &#8220;Flight of the Conchords.&#8221;[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118003228.html?categoryid=14&#038;cs=1\">variety<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Buddy show, huh?<\/p>\n\n<p>Hi Mindy. Let me introduce myself. My name is Taz. I have great comic timing and we could get into fun twitter\/blogger hijinx together. We&#8217;re born a week apart from each other. We are both brown. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/005317.html\">Indian accent sucks<\/a> too. We could do a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/003923.html\">Diwali meets Eid show<\/a>. The only thing that sets us apart is about seven figures. But I&#8217;m sure we can work something out in that arena. \ud83d\ude09 Call me! I&#8217;ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mindykaling\">following you on twitter<\/a> in the meantime!<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mindy Kaling could quite possibly be the next brown Tina Fey. Under terms of the two-year, seven-figure deal, Kaling will continue to write for and appear on &#8220;The Office&#8221; next season while simultaneously developing a comedy in which she would &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/mindy_kaling_co\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}