Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves in Good Fortune Aziz Ansari’s feature directorial debut comes at an awkward time. Good Fortune, which Ansari also wrote, produced, and stars in, is a well-intentioned film about the meaning of life, a naked attempt at bringing Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life to late-stage capitalism. Ansari stars as Arj, By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charming Angel Keanu Early last year, we saw photos of Keanu Reeves on set with Seth Rogen for Aziz Ansari’s new film, which is now called Good Fortune. The teaser dropped yesterday, the film stars Keanu as a guardian angel seeking more responsibility and so he sets out to save a lost By Sarah • May 29, 2025 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu on set with Aziz Aziz Ansari was supposed to direct a film starring Bill Murray, which was supposed to be released in 2023. That film was scuppered, though, amidst misconduct allegations against Murray (who can be seen in the upcoming Ghostbusters sequel, Frozen Empire, so everyone’s doing fine!). Aziz is also doing fine, By Sarah • Feb 01, 2024 09:40 am
Business of Hollywood Aziz Ansari, moving on and moving up Four years after having a #MeToo scandal of his own, Aziz Ansari is doing just fine. He has continued touring as a top-selling stand-up comedian, and he has a new stand-up special on Netflix, Aziz Ansari: Nightclub Comedian, his second post-scandal, plus he dropped a new season of Master of By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 11:54 am
Douchebags Aziz Ansari returns Eighteen months after an allegation of sexual misconduct threatened to ruin his career—not really, of course, because no one except for Harvey Weinstein has been ruined but people are always so worried about the hardships of men—Aziz Ansari returns to television with a new Netflix stand-up special, Right By Sarah • Jul 11, 2019 10:08 am
Top Reads This is a conversation about consent Over the weekend, a story about Aziz Ansari was published, in which a woman referred to as “Grace” recounted her date with Ansari, which ended in his apartment and a moment far too many women know: A round of touch-roulette where you try to decide the least awful places and By Sarah • Jan 16, 2018 09:41 am
Golden Globes 2018 Aziz Ansari’s speech was short I really loved Master of None Season 2. I almost didn’t watch it, given that I found Season 1 fine, funny at times but not unmissable. Season 2 is a different story. There’s an ambitious arc, there’s Italy, there’s episodes that are doing ambitious things, including By Duana • Jan 08, 2018 08:10 am
Style Lena Waithe: Emmys Best Dressed, Best Prepped (Duana) If we have learned one thing from Taylor Swift, it is that there is no charm in fake surprise at an awards show win. Genuine surprise makes great TV – the gasping and gulping and ‘you like me!’ that fuels social media the next day—but the calm, faux splutter of By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 12:57 pm
TV Updates Aziz Ansari is mastering it all The second season of Master of None premieres on Netflix on May 12—assuming they don’t end up releasing stuff early because they got hacked— and in advance of the premiere, Aziz Ansari covers New York Magazine, talking about season 2, SNL, and kinda-sorta Trump. There’s a lot By Sarah • May 01, 2017 01:04 pm
TV Updates Master of Joy Yesterday Lainey wrote about TV FOMO in the age of Peak TV, and how hard it is to keep up with the sheer volume of shows available now. With something like 500 scripted shows airing in 2017 across all platforms, it is virtually impossible to see everything. I wrote to By Sarah • Apr 05, 2017 11:52 am
TV Updates Aziz Ansari delivered on SNL After a terrible episode with Felicity Jones, Saturday Night Live rebounded on a make-or-break weekend with Aziz Ansari hosting. A show that strives for topicality and cultural relevance CANNOT f*ck up not only an inauguration weekend, but the most divisive inauguration in recent memory, one that included an inauguration By Sarah • Jan 23, 2017 09:07 am
BFFs New York in similar coats Katy Perry was in New York last night at Stephen Colbert, seen here in a leopard print coat. Or cheetah. Like I’ve said before, I can never remember or distinguish animal prints. Katy’s been campaigning hard for Hillary Clinton and her visit to Colbert was to “talk politics” By Lainey • Nov 08, 2016 12:16 pm
Emmy Awards 2016 Aziz Ansari & Alan Yang: Emmy Win FTW Everything about this win made me so happy. The fact that they won at all, which we’ll come back to. The fact that when they gave their acceptance speeches, Ansari took second place, letting the much less famous, and much less likely to get a platform from day to By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 03:27 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, August 23, 2016 Dane Cook holds a grudge like a megalomaniac billionaire. And he’s not up on his news – how is he just hearing about Gawker now?! Good ol’ Dane piqued my interest, so if you are wondering what he is so upset about, maybe it’s the time Gawker categorized him By Maria • Aug 23, 2016 04:58 pm
Aziz Ansari Intro for June 30, 2016 Dear Gossips, Tomorrow is Canada Day, kicking off the long weekend in Canada. Which is why I saved my favourite article of the week for today’s open. It’s Vulture’s interview with Dr Shoukath Ansari, who could receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy By Lainey • Jun 30, 2016 09:36 am
Seth Meyers Comedy in our annus horribilis 2016 is, without doubt, an annus horribilis, a worldwide sh*tstorm that is starting to feel suspiciously like the first chapter in a dystopia novel. 2016 is the real-life equivalent of a Hieronymous Bosch painting—this detail of a bird-monster sh*tting bubble people while it eats a person that By Sarah • Jun 28, 2016 11:12 am
