Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (2011)
Adventures of Mindy Kaling from New York to LA, and a beautifully unfiltered view into her world of television comedy and late night show-biz.
names
- Duante Diallo: first encounter of bullying, body-shaming, and anorexia
- Mavis Lehrman: first best friend, learned the most about herself and comedy passion here, recalls initial feelings of embarassment/jealousy, and later, relief when excluded from her previous best friend-group.
Favorite moments in comedy
- Anchorman
- 30 Rock
- Chappelle’s Show: The Racial Draft
- Wet Hot American Summer
- The Sopranos: Drug Intervention
- Old School
- Talladega Nights
- Bridesmaids
- The Da Ali G Show
misc notes
- Anne Sullivan: Helen Keller’s teacher, at age five, she contracted an eye disease leaving her blind without reading/writing skills – in her later teenage years she received an education at the Perkins School for the Blind and began teaching Keller after graduating as valedictorian, six years later.
- Sarah Silverman: worked on Wreck it Ralph
- Mary Kay Letourneau: former schoolteacher who pleaded guilty in 1997 to two counts of second-degree rape of a child, Vili Fualaau. Imprisoned from 1998-2004, Letourneau and Fualaau began a 14-year marriage in 2005.
- Men take way too long to tie their shoes, apparently.