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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 85 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Me: "who are any of these people?"

[–] candyman337@piefed.ca 93 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Dinesh from Silicon Valley

Raj from Big Bang Theory

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

Things they're best known for:

Dinesh from Silicon Valley

He'll always be Prismo to me

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Silverman from supporting genocide.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago (5 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.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 4 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ll always know him as Prismo

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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago

And support of Israel's genocide

I used to think she was cool

Sadly, she's shitty.

[–] riskey@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Omg, I watched Voyager 100 times and never recognised her

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Also for the Bob's Burgers fans, Sarah her sister Laura play the twins Ollie and Andy Pesto, respectively.

[–] Spur4383@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For the voice of glitchy in Wreck it Ralph

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Vanellope, which I only remember because that's a dope name.

[–] OS2Warp@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Known for fucking Matt Damon

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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I know him from Taskmaster!

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[–] Trashcan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

You'll never guess what Tom Morello studied at uni

[–] stark@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] BunScientist@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] homes@piefed.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 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?

[–] homes@piefed.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Office of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs.

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[–] varden@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (11 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.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

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

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

he got shredded for Marvel’s Eternals

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

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

This is also what i thought the comment meant

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[–] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] reminiscensdeus@eviltoast.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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