Mindy Kaling on ‘The Office,’ ‘Never Have I Ever’ and SNL

The Last Laugh

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Mindy Kaling broke through as a writer and star of ‘The Office’ and then ‘The Mindy Project’ before taking those roles to new heights in her latest film ‘Late Night’ opposite Emma Thompson. In this episode, we talk about the complicated politics of that movie and what it’s actually like to be the only minority woman in an all-male writers room. Plus, Kaling speaks out for the first time about her controversial Instagram post supporting Aziz Ansari, reveals why she had to turn down her “dream” job at SNL and previews her hit Netflix show ‘Never Have I Ever.’

This episode was originally published on June 18th, 2019.

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0:00.0	This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and for this July 4th week,
0:10.8	we are throwing it back to the episode I recorded with the brilliant Mindy Kaling just over two years ago.
0:18.6	Mindy and I spoke in June of 2019, just as her movie late night, co-starring
0:23.3	the great Emma Thompson, was hitting theaters. This was back in the days when we were doing
0:27.9	all of these interviews in studio, and I can confirm that Mindy was the first and only guest
0:34.2	to arrive with a full-on entourage, including hair and makeup people.
0:38.4	But once we sat down in the booth and started talking, she really revealed more about herself than I expected,
0:44.3	including how her early days at the office influenced the complicated gender politics of her new movie,
0:50.3	and why she was forced to turn down her dream job at Saturday Night Live.
0:55.5	I also asked Mindy a question about Zanzari that I worried might upset her in some way.
1:02.4	To her credit, she actually thanked me after the taping was over for asking it
1:06.6	and said she was surprised that no one else had.
1:09.6	Mindy, you can hear in the voice cast of Monsters at Work,
1:12.8	streaming tomorrow July 7th on Disney Plus,
1:15.7	also previewed her teen comedy, Never Have I Ever,
1:18.9	which at that point had yet to premiere on Netflix.
1:22.1	The second season is now set to arrive next Thursday, July 15th.
1:26.7	All right, I hope you enjoy this episode, especially if you missed it the first time
1:30.8	around, and we will be back with an all-new episode next week.
1:34.8	Here's me with Mindy Kaling.
1:37.1	You don't like listening to yourself in headphones?
1:39.4	No, I think I'll like it too much, and then I'll be like, whoa, I sound cool.
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