Me: "who are any of these people?"
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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
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.
Jesus, is that why they did that? That episode fucked me up
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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Don't forget Sarah Silverman, known for stand up comedy (?)
Also for the Bob's Burgers fans, Sarah her sister Laura play the twins Ollie and Andy Pesto, respectively.
Known for fucking Matt Damon
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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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The second guy was in the big bang theory and the third guy was in Dr. House, idk who the first guy is
Sir or madam the third one is Kumar, he went to White Castle long before he applied to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital
And then left that show to join the Obama administration. Seriously.
I was sure this was a troll when it happened, but no, it was real. Does anyone know if he did a good job?
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.
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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.
He was also just on the most recent season of Taskmaster. Pretty funny guy.
He's also in the Fallout TV series and the Obi Wan Kenobi series
So sad he got jacked for that movie, but at least he remained jacked.
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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Silicon Valley & Adventure Time are his best roles imo but he’s pretty prolific
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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.
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:
It says here that Chris Pratt wants people to call him CP
I can't believe they put CP in the Mario movie
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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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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.
Jaime Pressly and Margot Robbie but I don't think the people in the OP look alike.
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In the '80s it was Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds for me.
At various periods of time, I've been unable to tell the difference between Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell.
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Oh hey look it's the genocide supporter Sarah Silverman
Loved this guy in Parks and Rec
I would be very careful being brown around Sarah Silverman
Yeah, I really liked her until the whole "genocide is cool because of my superstition" bullshit
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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Holy shit people, is this whole thread satire, or are you all basically confirming what they are talking about
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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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