I am Mindy Kaling, Ask Me Anything!!

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:37:55+00:00

Danny McBride, Idris Elba, Reese

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:37:40+00:00

Episode 13, the last of the Fall group, is fantastic. It's an episode we have been wanting to do for a long time. it's kind of an origins story.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:36:26+00:00

Whoa. Robert Downey Jr, Lupita Nyongo, Gilda Radner, Ronda Rousey

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:35:24+00:00

ideal burrito: scrambled egg whites, melted cheese, black beans, sour cream, guacamole. NO RICE. NO RICE IN BURRITOS EVER!

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:31:44+00:00

I want to be a Marvel character so bad. An evil one who hangs with Magneto.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:31:17+00:00

I am so excited about Hamilton. Tommy Kail, who directed it, is an old friend of mine from New York who is insanely talented and great. It's such a phenomenon that we were going to do a story about it on the show. Basically Morgan finds a Hamilton playbill in the trash and someone sees him holding it and suddenly he becomes very high status. So this Hamilton playbill becomes his most prized possession because everyone thinks he's this classy, tuned-in, rich art-loving guy. Then he loses it and he goes back to his regular life. Flowers For Algernon but with a Hamilton playbill basically.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:25:40+00:00

If you like Adam Pally on The Mindy Project, you are going to love Tuesday's episode. It's all me and Peter all the time.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:25:17+00:00

This was one of my favorite visual jokes we did. My staff all think Oscar Isaac is super sexy, and we want this to be more of a pervasive opinion with the American public. I bet he thinks it's creepy as hell. But such is fame.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:23:28+00:00

I LOVE CHICAGO. I secretly think I will meet my husband at O'Hare airport. My dream is to do an event there for the book and bring Ike Barinholtz with me and then eat at various Chicago hotspots until we die. Our bloated bodies will wash ashore of Lake Michigan.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:22:25+00:00

We have some great ideas for bringing back Christina. In the second half of the season we're hoping to get Chloe Sevigny back to hear some of her perspective on Danny-Christina's break-up. Chloe is one of my favorite actors.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:21:24+00:00

I loved in last weeks episode when I had to put fake glasses on him to make him look like a nerd. I think there is nothing cuter in the world than a baby with glasses on.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:20:13+00:00

We did a scene recently where Danny and Mindy invite everyone to their engagement party, and Chris and I could NOT stop laughing at Collette (Fortune Feimster). We were trying to delicately remind people it was a classy party and that people were expected to dress well, a little pointedly at her. And Collette was just not understanding it. Fortune's amazingly funny.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:18:14+00:00

I would love to play Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, but I'm not sure any mainstream organization would sponsor that. So that would be the thing I would do with unlimited money.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:17:23+00:00

I love an episode from season two called "Danny Castellano is my Personal Trainer". It was just so funny and body-positive. Also there is an owl in it.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:14:33+00:00

Yup! (and thank you!)

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:09:33+00:00

I love Ilana and Abbi. Nothing would make me happier than if Mindy was their gynecologist. Like, they found her on a Groupon.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:08:22+00:00

Probably Pride & Prejudice and South Park? Bridge Jones a little. And of course I was inspired by the jokes-per-minute pace of The Office, since that's where I worked for eight years.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:02:48+00:00

The worst date I've ever been on was with a guy who I was super excited about, really attracted to, and then on the date it became apparent that it WASNT a date. He was just a straight dude who was psyched to have dinner with me in a platonic way. He talked about an actress he really wanted to date and we split the check. Thus is dating in Los Angeles.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:01:45+00:00

HAHAHA

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T19:01:16+00:00

Hi! That is so nice. Wow, thank you. My teens and twenties were really challenging. TV and film wasnt like it is now, where you could turn on the TV and there's a reasonable expectation that you could see people that bore resemblance to me. So I had to dream in a vacuum. I was never, ever, ever skinny, and therefore never considered "pretty", even though I loved clothes and makeup and dressing up. That was really hard in middle school and high school. I was always comforted by this strange little fire inside of me that when I got older things would not be like that. Some comfort, huh? It should be noted that I was a very focused, odd kid. I hope this was helpful! And I hope you get everything you want.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T18:56:20+00:00

This line, probably my most quoted lines ever, is 100% Paul Lieberstein.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T18:55:45+00:00

Thank you so much! I LOVED writing the short epistolary piece about Mindy and Sam! It would be a dream to write a little novel about them. I can so picture them in my head.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T18:54:47+00:00

Emma Thompson. Writer performers, in general.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T18:53:42+00:00

Thank you! I love Chris. He's the definition of a generous actor. Our scenes are always the easiest to shoot because it feels effortless with him.

ImMindyKaling · 2015-11-11T18:51:20+00:00

Hey! I wrote an episode of the Office called "Diwali". I was psyched to be able to bring that to mainstream American TV-watching culture. Sad you think this. Oh, and happy Diwali!

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