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[–] 105 points 2 months ago (81 children)

Me: "who are any of these people?"

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  • [–] 112 points 2 months ago* (38 children)

    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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  • [–] 87 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 43 points 2 months ago (19 children)

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

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (34 children)

    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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  • [–] 68 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    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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  • [–] 47 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 49 points 2 months ago (15 children)

    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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    [–] 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

    Kumail literally had a stand up bit when he was much less well known about being called "Kumar" and how he dreams of the day that he is the goto point of reference that racists use to stereotype other brown people and himself. So Kal should proud of that, at least.

    Also, I work with a lot of Middle Eastern and Indian people with a wide variety of names. It is weird that these three celebrities talking about being mistaken for each other all have names starting with K, containing an A, and ending with L. Kumail, Kunal, and Kal. Maybe it's not so much about them being mistaken for each other but switching similar names around, like white guys called Kayden, Brayden, and Layden.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    I wonder how good we are at distinguishing those Chris actors compared to distinguishing the actors in the OP.

    Haha thanks Wiki, there’s a name:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Chrises

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    I mean, it’s also the racism that probably causes people to not give enough of a fuck to bother to recognize the difference; but the grammatical aspect ain’t making it any easier if you read at a 5th grade level

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    [–] 37 points 2 months ago (18 children)

    Eh, it took me years to tell Claire Danes apart from Gwyneth Paltrow and I think there are a couple other actresses that I may also be thinking are Claire or Gwyneth. It isn't "they don't recognize different brown people" as much as there are many doppelgangers in the world.

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    [–] 34 points 2 months ago

    Oh hey look it's the genocide supporter Sarah Silverman

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago

    Loved this guy in Parks and Rec

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I would be very careful being brown around Sarah Silverman

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Shit, I owe an apology to Karan Soni, because I was sure it was one of those 3 playing Dopinder until I looked it up.

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    [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Why are they still on Twitter?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago*

    I just watched Fallout's second season recently, and I was surpised to see Kumail in it. Up until they said his name, I thought he was supposed to be Arthur Maxton so I was like "What?! No way!" 🤣

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