SFist Reviews: Aziz Ansari at the Punch Line
One of Aziz Ansari's flagship jokes involves our publisher Gothamist. The opening sentence of an interview with Aziz described him as, "the nerdy guy you went to high school with, and doesn't do too much to negate that image once he takes the stage."
Aziz's proactive approach to counter this possible image marring bit of PR was to implore his fans to post on their blogs and websites "Aziz Ansari is a f**king badass" up to the point when people begin to google his name, the system will ask, "did you mean, Aziz Ansari is a f**king badass?"
SFist Paolo, contributing
Image by Jeff Yarborough, from Aziz's blog
It was a delight to see Aziz, who recently performed at the Punch Line, as part of the SF Sketechfest, but also as his maiden performance in San Francisco. We were fans of Aziz since about July, when we found a link to the series of web-shorts he did with Rob Hubel (that's the inconsiderate cell phone man to you), Shutterbugs, about two movie agents (Ansari and Hubel) who represent toddlers in the cut-throat world of Hollywood. Some may even say it is because of Shutterbugs our obsession with Channel 101 and Channel 102 (site where Shutterbugs was hosted) blossomed.
What impressed us about his performance was the multimedia approach to his stand-up, with projector in tow, he opened up his set up by showing all three episodes of Shutterbugs, and showing a video of him blasting "the sh*ttest mixtape ever made" in Manhattan, to playing a recording of a phone conversation between him and his mom on why he punched a wall.
Aziz Ansari appears with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow tonight at the 142 Throckmorton Theater (142 Throckmorton Avenue @ Madrona) in Mill Valley at 8pm tonight. Tickets are twenty dollars.