Aziz Ansari has been killing it lately on Parks and Recreation. He’s always hilarious, but the above clip puts him into one of my all-time favorite sitcom characters. I hate when Indians anglicize their names so normally his character changing his name to ‘Tom Haverford’ would give me pause, but as usual his explanation makes me love him more (From):
LESLIE: You’re not from here, right?
TOM: No, I’m from South Carolina.
LESLIE: But you moved to South Carolina from where?
TOM: My mother’s uterus.
LESLIE: But you were conceived in… Libya, right?
TOM: Wow, no. I was conceived in America, my parents are Indian.
LESLIE: Where’d the name Haverford come from?
TOM: My birth name is Darwish Sabir Ismael Gani and I changed it to Tom Haverford because, you know, brown guys with funny sounding Muslim names don’t get really far in politics.
(pause)
LESLIE: What about Barack Obama?
TOM: Fine, Barack Obama. If I knew a dude named Barack Obama was gonna be elected president, yeah, maybe I wouldn’t have changed my name.
Aziz Ansari is such an amazing actor, I especially love his character on Parks & Rec. I, too, strongly dislike when Indians change their names to sound more Western, but as always Aziz makes even such a touchy topic for me humorous.
HAHAHA, that’s so funny! Found your blog through Twitter
And I was one of the three girls who waited for Mindy Kaling in Boston 
http://www.hoggerandco.com/photohogger/mindy-kaling-book-signing.html