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Saw Aziz Ansari at the Punchline Comedy Club in SFO on Saturday. His act was very good and I would readily recommend it to anyone who would like a fun weekend evening. Beware though, his humor is blunt and vulgar at times but that’s de rigueur for most standup acts. He is an American by birth and Indian by ethnicity.  What I found refreshing though, was that his material did not revolve around the ethno-centric wellspring of humor that guys like Russell Peters and others exploit all the time. In fact, there were none of those jokes to be found., barring one about the built of people from India (and how they are supposed to be skinny and all that). Aziz is working on a Judd Apatow file called Funny People and he did a segment, in-character, as a character called Randy that he’s developing for that project. Other hillarious bits included his imitation of that old staple, the redneck southerner. It stood out for me because there was a certain freshness to how he setup and constructed that whole piece. His style is very animated and he moves around the stage a lot using his whole body as a tool to deliver the jokes. Good Stuff.