Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. Got a great one for you this week with one of my absolute favorites, the hilarious, the talented, Mindy Kaling. Mindy Kaling has honestly become one of the powerhouses of Hollywood.

She writes, she directs, she creates all these shows you love.

Most recently, Running Point, starring Kate Hudson on Netflix, just renewed for a third season.

Her latest show is a Hulu series called Not Suitable for Work.

And she'll tell you why she thinks it fits into kind of a trilogy of three shows that she has created and then kind of laughs at herself as the trilogy style artist in the mold of, you know, Peter Jackson or George Lucas.

You probably know her story. She grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts,

loved reading and writing, was very funny, was encouraged by her parents who were not certainly

in the entertainment field whatsoever, and moved out to L.A. and got a job as a writer when she was

24 years old on the office. She also then was placed on the office because she was so funny and so talented by the show's

creator Greg Daniels and became the unforgettable character, Kelly Kapoor.

She later became an executive producer of the office as well and wrote some of the most

famous episodes of that iconic series, then created her own series, The Mindy Project,

which was a hit for six seasons loosely based on the life of her late mother. So she's got so

much cooking, so much going on. She's a mother of three beautiful young children. She just really

got it going. And she was nice enough to get us in to a restaurant in New York

City called Semma, which is not just the best Indian restaurant in New York, but some think it's

the best restaurant in New York, period. It was the first Indian restaurant to top the New York Times

100 best restaurant list. So with all that said, let's sit down at Semma.

We got a table at Semma, guys, to talk to Mindy Kaling right now on the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

Great to see you, Mindy. It's been too long. Wait, you said that it's been...

Almost nine years. Nine years. That's an outrage. And the last time you saw me, I was pregnant with my first child. Yes. Yes. You were ending the Mindy Project, pregnant with your first child. I was actually thinking about that come over. Look at how much your life has changed. It's the last time I saw you in every possible way,

professionally and personally.

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