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Here’s the history:
About four years ago, I started a blog called “Things I’ve Bought That I Love”. I know, I know. You’re like: Mindy, of course we know your blog. We all lived and died to your postings on that site, you don’t have to tell us. We love you. You’re an angel.
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“I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. For me, there is no difference between Ripley from “Alien” and any Katherine Heigl character. They are equally implausible.”
~ From Mindy Kaling’s new book “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?” Excerpt posted on the New Yorker
Great writing can come from a lot of places: history, observations, social commentary. In 2010, it seems rare to find a great writer who pulls inspiration from their own being, from the fabric of their inner thoughts. This is the case with the comic genius Mindy Kaling.
Most people are familiar with Kaling because of her role as the loveable yet chaotic Kelly Kapoor on The Office, but it’s her responsibilities as a writer for the show that sheds light on her skills as a comedian. This year, she was nominated for an Emmy (she didn’t win), given a book deal (Titled The Contents of my Purse) and is in pre-production for a film titled, The Low Self Esteem of Lizzie Gillespie. Still unconvinced? Here’s what her co-star and co-writer, BJ Novak, has to say about her writing talents:
Mindy has long been considered the best writer on The Office, and every actor on the show thinks she writes for them best,” Novak says. There is the extra little ‘smile’ that infuses her scripts, which is hard to quantify.
While The Office seems to be wrapping up given Steve Carrel’s departure and Kaling’s indications that she’d like to move on from the show, we’re fairly confident that she’s headed for stardom for a new breed of romantic comedy. See, Kaling has dreams of inventing a new kind of romantic comedy - one that actually represents women as they actually live. Here’s some samplings:
On women with weird flaws:
Why do all the women have to be klutzes? All these pretty women with no discernible flaws, so let’s make them a klutz! Or what about all the skinny women shoving food in their mouth on dates? It would be so much funnier if the women weren’t skinny.
On Inception:
I liked when Joseph Gordon Leavitt kissed Ellen Page #InceptionWasARomanticComedy
On the career/love storyline (yes, originally written in all caps on Twitter):
NO MORE TYPE A PERSONALITY WOMEN IN ROMANTIC COMEDIES WHO HAVE TO LEARN TO PUT THEIR CAREER ASIDE TO FIND TRUE LOVE
On her new movie:
It’s (The Low Self Esteem of Lizzie Gillespie) about a girl who gravitates toward ugly losers because she thinks she’d never be able to date anyone attractive and cool. … It’s 80 percent interaction between three female friends. Judd Apatow was really onto something when he wrote movies where guys actually talk the way guys do. I’ve never seen that done with female friendships.
We can’t wait to see what’s next for Kaling and expect great things out of The Contents of My Purse and Lizzie Gillespie. So here’s to you Mindy Kaling, a hilarious and deserving Lady Geek.
