I’ve only just starting warming up to Raaaaaaandy, Aziz Ansari’s ‘bad comedian’ character, but if you believe Judd Apatow, they’re already talking giving Raaaaaaandy his own movie. And if anyone has the clout to actually make that happen, it’s Judd Apatow. Said the man in an interview with JoBlo:
“Randy isn’t in [Funny People] anywhere near as much we wish he was. Something hilariously magical happened when Aziz showed up. So we all said, ‘What else can we do?’ Let’s just make a documentary! We just couldn’t stop writing for him. And now we’re talking about making the RANDY movie. We can’t get enough of Randy…”
Though he was laughing, he definitely wasn’t joking about a RANDY movie later adding, “we’re outlining it right now.”
I didn’t like this character at all at first but he’s grown on me a lot since then, so maybe by the time this comes out it’ll actually sound like a good idea (it already sounds better than MacGruber). But if it’s “hilariously magical” you’re after, you should’ve seen time my friend pantsed Criss Angel and then I socked him in the belly. Tada! His mascara runs when he cries.
Part two of the Raaaaaaaandy documentary (viral video of Aziz Ansari’s character in Funny People) just came online, and I almost didn’t watch it because part one seemed like a less funny version of Dave Chapelle’s bad comedian character from 10 years ago. But then I watched it anyway, and I admit, this one’s a lot funnier. Turns out a mockumentary cutting together out-of-context punchlines like “I got some Oreos on my diiick!” and “You gotta take a shiiiiiit!” is way better than seeint the whole act in character. So, uh, keep that in mind. And as for Aziz, head bowed and hat in hand, I must utter a humble “Ansari.”
Shut up, I was already leaving.
The first part of a viral marketing/mockumentary short about Raaaandy, Aziz Ansari’s character who will play some part in Judd Apatow’s Funny People, has hit the web. I got through about a minute of it. Everyone thinks this Randy character is hilarious, and nothing against Aziz Ansari (who was in a really good Flight of the Conchords episode), but I don’t quite get it. I guess it’s supposed to be a parody of a bad comedian. So it’s like, unfunny on purpose? And if that’s the case, isn’t the Raaaaaaaandy character a lot like Dave Chappelle’s Reggie Warrington character in the Nutty Professor? (See clip below)
Or maybe I’m just racist for thinking all deliberately bad, fictional black comedian parodies look the same.
