Mindy Kaling Grows Up
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Mindy Kaling broke through as a writer and star of ‘The Office’ and then ‘The Mindy Project’ and this summer she has taken those roles to new heights in her excellent new film ‘Late Night’ opposite Emma Thompson. In this episode, we talk about the complicated politics of that movie, Kaling speaks out for the first time about her controversial Instagram post supporting Aziz Ansari and reveals why she had to turn down her “dream” job at SNL.
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| 0:00.0 | This summer, I did the Minority Executive Training Program at Yale. |
| 0:04.0 | You guys, I'm like really smart now. You don't even know. |
| 0:07.0 | You could ask me, Kelly, what's the biggest company in the world? |
| 0:10.0 | And I'd be like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, |
| 0:13.0 | giving you the exact right answer. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to The Last Laugh. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. |
| 0:22.1 | As some of you may know, I'm pretty obsessed with Late Night TV. |
| 0:25.8 | So when I first saw that Mindy Kaling was making a movie set at a late night show starring Emma Thompson, I was seriously intrigued. |
| 0:32.6 | That movie, titled Late Night, made a huge splash at Sundance earlier this year, and finally premiered |
| 0:38.1 | in theaters nationwide this past weekend. And I can tell you that it does not disappoint. |
| 0:43.5 | Mindy, who got her start as a writer and performer on the office before creating the Mindy |
| 0:47.5 | Project, stars opposite Emma Thompson as Molly Patel, a young, inexperienced comedy writer |
| 0:53.4 | who's brought onto the network's struggling |
| 0:55.0 | late-night behemoth as a diversity hire. She joins an all-white male writer's room, just as the |
| 1:00.5 | real Mindy did when she was hired by NBC to write on the office 14 years ago. In this episode, we talk |
| 1:06.7 | about how that experience is reflected on- in late night and a lot more, including |
| 1:11.3 | that controversial Instagram she posted in support of her friend Aziz Ansari and why she was |
| 1:16.1 | forced to turn down her dream job at Saturday Night Live. |
| 1:19.9 | So I hope you enjoy this frank conversation with Mindy Kaling as much as I did. |
| 1:24.3 | This is The Last Laugh. |
| 1:26.4 | Really? |
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