{"id":6043,"date":"2009-12-09T11:49:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T16:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6043"},"modified":"2009-12-09T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T16:49:51","slug":"a_little_wednes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/a_little_wednes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Wednesday Comedy: Kumail Nanjiani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani-American comedian Kumail Nanjiani, on &#8220;Benjamin Button&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0nziY8rKvLs&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0nziY8rKvLs&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n\n<p>I also think some of his other bits are pretty good: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NZqMTp1TU1I\">The Thing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k1cvKcGVy6k\">A New Drug Called Cheese<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=neECmSMHdfU\">Cellphones and Horror<\/a>. It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XacfJR5PIFo\">this promo<\/a> has material related to life in Pakistan, which I for one would be curious to hear more about.<\/p>\n\n<p>For those in the NY area, Kumail Nanjiani is performing as part of a festival called &#8220;Minority Fest&#8221; this Friday, December 11, in Brooklyn. Other people participating in the event include Das Racist. and Hari Kondabolu, both Sepia Mutiny favorites. More info. about Minority Fest can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/harithecomic.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/this-friday-minorityfest-at-glasslands.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>p.s. I&#8217;m at the Pizza Hut, I&#8217;m at the Taco Bell. I&#8217;m at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. What.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani-American comedian Kumail Nanjiani, on &#8220;Benjamin Button&#8221;: I also think some of his other bits are pretty good: The Thing, A New Drug Called Cheese, and Cellphones and Horror. It looks like this promo has material related to life in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/a_little_wednes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}