Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Kolbert

Stephen Colbert revisits last week’s decision to side with Shah Rukh Khan in The Colbert Report‘s continuing segment ‘We the MEdiator’:

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The Colbert Report
Comedy Central
KKKG
Lal Badshah = Box Office Bomb

Mirza Takes The Mic

(Steve Ullathorne)

Shazia Mirza headlines this week in San Francisco at the Punchline Comedy Club through the 20th. In addition to her stand-up routine, she acts and writes for TV and theater. Later this month Mirza will be presenting a BBC Radio 4 documentary on “Humour Around the World.”

A Luxembourg news magazine interviewed Mirza last year when she was in town for a festival that celebrates alternative and fringe female artists and performers (Can Somebody Plug Me In?), and described changes over time in her act.

More information:
ShaziaMirza.org
Punchline Comedy Club

Great Day At The Office

Photo courtesy of JustJared.com

Mindy Kaling and her “Office” – mates have received a nod from the Screen Actors Guild for “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.” Kaling, who plays the clingy, cloying Kelly Kapoor on the Emmy-winning show, also writes for the sitcom.The Office is part of NBC’s Thursday night line-up.
More The Office on Nirali:
Masti See TV
The Diwali Song

(And if you’ve always wanted to see a video-montage of Kelly Kapoor set to a giddy Spice Girls! track, today’s your lucky day)

“Crank Up the Handsome and Rip Off the Knob”

Stephen Colbert uses his internal “Bhangrometer” when deciding which side to take in this feud currently shaking up Bollywood.

Start watching at about 1:50 to see King Khan and Big B face off:

Thanks to Sepia Mutiny tipster brown_fob for the link.

(The Colbert Report)

Big Fuss Over Little Mosque

Creator/producer Zarqa Nawaz. (Sophie Giraud/CBC)

CNN’s Paula Zahn recently visited the set of the CBC’s Little Mosque on the Prairie to report on the new comedy series about a small community of Muslims living in rural Saskatchewan. The BBC, The New York Times, The LA Times and several other news outlets outside of Canada have also been paying attention to the show. It is scheduled to debut January 9, and the buzz has been building up. Torontoist has photos and more from Thursday’s promotional event in Dundas Square featuring camels and “The World’s Largest Chicken Shawarma.” Will it live up to the hype? The clips look promising, and it would be great to hear from people who tune in to watch this next week. Let us know what you think!

The show’s creator and producer, 39 year-old filmmaker and mother of four Zarqa Nawaz, of Regina, Saskatchewan, hopes her children will see the new face of Canada in the show. She also hopes it will make people laugh.

More information:
Little Mosque on the Prairie Official Web Site
Official CBC Blog posts on Little Mosque
CBC news clip with interview of Nawaz
YouTube clips (1, 2)—these are also on the show’s site.

The Morning After: Nawaz responds to questions via chat and email following the show’s debut, including this gem: “How much are you paid by Al Qaida to produce your show to try to soften up the Canadian public for an attack?”

Watch The Pilot: On Google Video