Still not over not seeing Tom Haverford on TV every week? Well, meet Dev Shah.
Aziz Ansari finally spilled the beans recently — or a few of them, at least — on “Master of None,” his new scripted comedy series for Netflix that debuts Nov. 6.
In a two-minute trailer, the comedian, best known for his stand-up and his turn as a small-town bureaucrat on NBC’s “Parks & Recreation,” casts himself as Dev Shah, an actor fumbling his way through relationships, work and this weird thing we call life. (And, as the title of the show suggests, Dev’s not exactly great at any of it.)
In a brief ask-me-anything session on Twitter recently, Ansari revealed even more: The comedy won’t be based on his life, and it will feature cameos from his real mother and father. He also had some fun explaining how the show differs from both the movie “Slumdog Millionaire” and HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Oh, and it also definitely won’t be like “Parks.”
Netflix announced in April that it was ordering 10 episodes of a scripted sitcom from Ansari but didn’t give much more in the way of details. The trailer reveals the comedian in his first leading part, following his roles in ensemble casts and MTV’s weird, wonderful sketch show “Human Giant.”
Ansari wrote, produced and directed “Master of None” with Alan Yang, a former “Parks” writer, who happened to also play the bassist in Mouse Rat, that show’s resident terrible grunge band. On Twitter, Ansari said that’s where the “Parks” connections end.
The streaming service has been courting comedians of late, with several comics turning up not only in exclusive stand-up specials produced for the service (Ansari has already done two), but also in original programming, including the animated “BoJack Horseman” (voiced by Will Arnett) and “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp,” whose credits read like a who’s who of indie comedy.
