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The Treatment

Aziz Ansari: Netflix's 'Master of None'

The Treatment

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4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Comedian and actor Aziz Ansari visits The Treatment to discuss his new Netflix series Master of None.  

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center.

0:02.9

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0:13.7

You can find Left, Right and Center on KCRW's iTunes page.

0:17.8

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:30.2

Welcome to The Treatment.

0:33.1

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

0:34.1

I'm sitting across from actor, close horse, author, stand-of-com comedian, and TV

0:41.7

creating producer Aziz Ansari. His new book, which I have sitting right next to me,

0:45.2

here is Modern Romance, his new series. Don't think of him as Tom Humberford anymore. He's not

0:49.3

that guy. He's not Randy. He's now deaf. His new show on Netflix is the terrific new show. I mean, just let's talk

0:56.5

about where that idea for the show came from. And just using the title, Master of None,

1:02.7

where's the title come from?

1:04.5

Titles are very hard. And this actually plays into a lot of the themes of the show about how

1:10.0

hard it is to make decisions sometimes.

1:12.5

And yeah, the title is very hard.

1:14.9

And Master of None was just a phrase that I thought sounded cool and actually applied to the themes of the show.

1:20.4

And so we used it.

1:22.6

I think it's interesting, too.

1:23.8

The show really starts, it's got an unusual kind of cold open where the

1:28.8

it seems like it's a cold open in fact but setting up story and generally cold opens do something

1:33.1

that don't relate to anything else that happens but there's a cold open that then they always pay off

1:38.4

at some point if not that episode and episodes that come talk about and then the credits are like old show

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