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Mistaken identity

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days ago
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    Me: “who are any of these people?”

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      Things they’re best known for:

      Dinesh from Silicon Valley

      Raj from Big Bang Theory

      Kumar from Harold and Kumar, and also the Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement during the Obama Administration

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        I would say that Kumail Nanjiani might also be well-known these days for being the guy who had a role in the Marvel flop “Eternals,” and a subsequently hilarious press junket and social media tour.

        And Kal Penn was also Dr. Kutner in “House MD,” which was mostly notable because his character was suddenly and unceremoniously killed off so that Penn could go work for Obama.

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          Jesus, is that why they did that? That episode fucked me up

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            I think I heard that the showrunners were upset that he left them so suddenly, so they wrote him off in the most ignominious way possible.

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          I’ll always know him as Prismo

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            There was a great story about why he didnt voice him in the first season of Fiona and Cake since I noticed right away when it wasnt his voice. Thankfully he was back in season 2 and all was right with the world.

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          Kumail Nanjiani also had a role in the awful Kenobi series. Although of the three I think Kunal Nayyar is the one who had the least remarkable roles.

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          Silicon Valley was pretty big when it was on. Now Kumail is just in everything. Can catch his voice in a ton of animated stuff, too.

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          Yeah I almost mentioned both of those tbh, but I second guessed myself

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        Don’t forget Sarah Silverman, known for stand up comedy (?)

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          Star Trek: Voyager

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            Wait what!!

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              https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rain_Robinson

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              I remember rewatching it a couple years ago and being like… Wait is that Sarah Silverman?

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            Omg, I watched Voyager 100 times and never recognised her

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          For the voice of glitchy in Wreck it Ralph

          • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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            Vanellope, which I only remember because that’s a dope name.

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              That’s Vanellope Von Sweets to you, you uncultured swine. /s

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                *Schweetz

                • OS2Warp@lemmy.zip
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                  Missed it by 🤏 that much.

        • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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          Also for the Bob’s Burgers fans, Sarah her sister Laura play the twins Ollie and Andy Pesto, respectively.

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          That’s right. Also (among other things) for appearances in SNL.

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            She had a show and was on a bunch of celebrity roasts too

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              I have to recommend her comedy special PostMortem from last year about dealing with the deaths of her parents. Amazing performance.

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          Known for fucking Matt Damon

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            And that Babybel

        • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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          known for School of Rock

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          And Orange is the New Black

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          And support of Israel’s genocide

          I used to think she was cool

          Sadly, she’s shitty.

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        I feel like Kumail has come a long way since Silicon Valley. I see him all the time, he even does commercials still.

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          I know him from Taskmaster!

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          No Nipple Nanjiani?

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          He also got a fictional hand job from Dan Harmon on HarmonQuest.

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        Kumar worked in the white house? An actor got that jobb??

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          You’ll never guess what Tom Morello studied at uni

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          Why the surprise. A fucking actor sat in the Oval Office for 8 years.

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        Things they’re best known for:

        Dinesh from Silicon Valley

        He’ll always be Prismo to me

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        Silverman from supporting genocide.

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      The second guy was in the big bang theory and the third guy was in Dr. House, idk who the first guy is

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        Sir or madam the third one is Kumar, he went to White Castle long before he applied to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital

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          And then left that show to join the Obama administration. Seriously.

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            I was sure this was a troll when it happened, but no, it was real. Does anyone know if he did a good job?

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              As I recall, he was a perfectly competent staff member. I think he worked on the speechwriting team? It was a while ago, now, so I don’t remember most of the details.

              Iirc, he only worked in the first Obama administration, and then returned to Hollywood. Apparently, having a perfectly normal job for four years was enough.

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                Office of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs.

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              I believe Obama tweeted about it when he left and that he did

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                So the White House didn’t kill him off when he left there; that’s good.

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            Slight spoiler for House if you haven’t seen it.

            spoiler

            They had his character on House commit suicide to write him out of the show. It was very unexpected.

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              I’ve binged through the show a bunch of times, myself

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        Kumail Nanjiani is a comedian and actor. He was in Silicon Valley and more recently he got shredded for Marvel’s Eternals. He’s pretty funny.

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          He was also just on the most recent season of Taskmaster. Pretty funny guy.

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          He’s also in the Fallout TV series and the Obi Wan Kenobi series

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          He was also in an episode of Community for the final paintball episode.

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            Deputy Custodian Lapari, he’s in at least one episode in season 5, Analysis of Cork-Based Networking, the paintball episode is season 6, Modern Espionage.

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          So sad he got jacked for that movie, but at least he remained jacked.

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            he got shredded for Marvel’s Eternals

            Without your comment for context, I thought he was being blamed for how bad/mediocre Eternals was

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              This is also what i thought the comment meant

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              That’s funny, honestly his section with his manager was the best part of the movie. “He tried to kill me in me sleep!” “I thought he was a vampire!”

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          I almost read that name as “Kathy Najimy” (the actress from Sister Act and Hocus Pocus) just now.

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            Don’t forget she’s also Peggy from King of the Hill!

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              And Rat Race, and The Scream Team, a Disney channel original movie where she, Tommy Davidson, and Eric Idle play sassy ghosts who collaborate with living children.

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          “To shreds you say?” /s

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            Good news!

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          “Shredded” as in he was raked over the coals for the movie’s poor performance, or “shredded” as in he worked out extensively to get a superhero physique? I haven’t seen Eternals, I just know it flopped.

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            Yes

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        Silicon Valley & Adventure Time are his best roles imo but he’s pretty prolific

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          “Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency” I do know one of these guys!

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        He played, or voiced more accurately, prismo in adventure time. He’s also a stand up comedian

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          He’s genuinely one of my favorite voice actors. He added so much depth to AT

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            For sure. Idc what anybody else’s opinion about that show was, it was so wholesome and amazing. And the ending was so good. Hiding that relationship between two female characters you’d already learned to love for who they are, understanding why bubblegum wouldn’t accept finns absences suddenly making sense, huntress wizard, Jake and his family growth. What happened to humanity, finns struggle with honor, loyalty, and then finding out humans still exist? they really should make a movie. It was a little past my time, but once I watched it, I could see how its target audience could see that love is love, that nobody is wrong for being who they are, the actual important things to judge a person by isn’t who they love, it’s why they love and care about the people in their lives. So many subtle things about that show, as outrageous as it was, really showed that togetherness is what is so important.

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        The first guy was a contestant on Taskmaster

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        First guy was the entertaining member of The Immortals Incredibles Eternals. That memorable Marvel bunch.

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        Kumail

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcRTXAyBOcY

        😂

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      Same here, I don’t watch TV so I’m clueless.

      I do know who Sarah is, my favorite role of hers was in The Way of the Gun and she gets decked.

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        I liked her most in Star Trek, easy to get a crush on that character

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          Didn’t know she was on star trek, I’ll have to review the historical records.

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        That scene is so classic, I had to give away my copy of the dvd because it is just so realistic in it’s violence. One time I had to just stop watching it half way through and I don’t think I can ever watch it again

        Great movie but maybe just too real

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          Escalation of violence is key and this movie personifies it. Its a sad reality but thats how it is… (Done a ton of military training on this)

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      Why do you put “Me”? Who else is using your account? They should identify themselves.

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        The other me, duh

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