Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari is best known as one of the stars of the critically acclaimed sketch comedy series Human Giant on MTV, for which he is also a writer and executive producer. The show recently completed its second season.
He has also appeared on the HBO series Flight of the Conchords. He's currently filming roles in the films Observe and Report with Seth Rogen and I Love You, Man with Paul Rudd and Jason Segel.
Ansari began his career performing standup comedy in New York City while attending NYU. In 2005, Rolling Stone included him in their annual "Hot List" as their choice for the "Hot Standup" and he won the Jury Award for "Best Standup" at HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO. He occasionally tours colleges and music festivals and has also toured with the Comedians of Comedy and Flight of the Conchords.
Around the summer of 2005, Ansari began collaborating with fellow comedians Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer (both of the famed improv troupe Respecto Montalban), as well as director Jason Woliner to make short films. The first series created by the group was Shutterbugs, which followed Huebel and Ansari as cutthroat child talent agents. This was followed up by the Illusionators, which starred Ansari and Scheer as Criss Angel style goth magicians. In the summer of 2006, MTV greenlit a sketch series from the group which debuted April 5th, 2007.
On June 12, 2008, Variety announced that Ansari had been the first cast hire for the new The Office spinoff on NBC. The show is set to debut in 2009.
He currently resides in Los Angeles.
