The best Aasif Mandvi’s comedy movies
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Aasif Hakim Mandviwala (born March 5, 1966), known professionally as Aasif Mandvi , is an Indian-American actor and comedian. He began appearing as an occasional contributing correspondent on The Daily Show on August 9, 2006. On March 12, 2007, he was promoted to a regular correspondent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aasif Mandvi, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie 43
4.3/10
Fifteen directors and an all-star cast created this twisted comedy that follows three teens on the hunt for the world's most banned film.
The Proposal
6.8/10
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
The Dictator
6.4/10
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Blazing Samurai
5.7/10
The story revolves around a scrappy young dog who fights to save a town from becoming the litter box of a nefarious feline warlord.
Ruby Sparks
7.2/10
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.
Ghost Town
6.7/10
A spirited romantic comedy, Ghost Town is the story of Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), a cranky Manhattan dentist who develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. But, when a smooth-talking ghost (Greg Kinnear) traps Bertram into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen (Tea Leoni), they are entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
It's Kind of a Funny Story
7.1/10
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Mother's Day
5.6/10
Intersecting stories with different moms collide on Mother's Day.
Music and Lyrics
6.5/10
A washed up singer is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an aspiring teen sensation. Though he's never written a decent lyric in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman with a flair for words.
Eddie
5.2/10
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. She takes the bunch of overpaid prima
Drunk Parents
4/10
Two drunk parents attempt to hide their ever increasing financial difficulties from their daughter and social circle through elaborate neighborhood schemes.
Pretty Bird
5/10
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of American dreams and delusions.
Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs
5.9/10
Jon Stewart returns to television to host a live show presented from The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. Benefiting NEXT for Autism, the special features stand-up performances, sketches and short films.
Today's Special
6.6/10
Young Manhattan chef Samir rediscovers his heritage and passion for life through the enchanting art of cooking Indian food.
Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11
6.6/10
Tragedy + Time + Comedy = Healing. From the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to today stand-up comedians, talk-show hosts, sketch performers, television animators and other entertainers have used often-controversial jokes to unite and heal in the face of tragedy.
The Mystic Masseur
5.8/10
Circa 1940 in Trinidad, still a British Colony, lives Ganesh Ramseyor, of East Indian origin, along with his wife, Leela. He longs to reach out to people, especially to Hindus, in order to promote the Hindu Faith, and be known as a writer. He does get considerable success, so much so that he becomes famous as a miracle worker, having cured a man of sharing intimacy with his bicycle; prevented a man from believing that he can fly; and convincing a young woman to end her fast. His fame spreads all over the island and thousands throng to seek his blessings, which he does dole out quite benevolently, without charging any fees from the poor and the needy. He then decides to spread his wings by challenging the local politician Pandit Narayan Chandrashekhar alias Cyrus T., and takes over The Hindu Organization, thence opening his way to a seat in the prestigious Member of the Legislative Assembly
Undecided: The Movie
7/10
A camera crew follows two "undecided" voters along the actual campaign trail, and no Presidential candidate - on either side of the aisle - is spared.
Beat Cops
6.2/10
A pilot about a pair of slacker beat cops that Conan O'Brien produced for Fox.
The Internship
6.3/10
Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
