Hershal Pandya
@hershalpandya.bsky.social
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I write about comedy for Vulture.
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Music straight up doesn't get better than Lauryn Hill and D'Angelo harmonizing the lyric "nothing but you" over and over.
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I don't think I'd ever conceived of the world going on without D'Angelo. "Spanish Joint" forever. This sucks so much.
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A couple years ago, I learned how to make a humane fruit fly trap by putting a piece of banana in a glass jar, covering it in saran wrap, and poking holes in the top with toothpicks.

The problem is that nothing in my life works as well as this thing catches fruit flies.
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Ugh I wish I was wearing my super baggy trousers right now in tribute.
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Doing mutual aid to raise the money the Saudi Arabian government was going to pay me to cover the Riyadh comedy festival, which I was definitely 1000% offered but forfeited due to morality reasons.
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Not included in this interview: The moment when Will Arnett stopped me mid-question to absolutely clock me with, "Hershal, are you Canadian?"

www.vulture.com/article/will...
Will Arnett Will Retire When He Has $19 Billion
He’s a man of ‘very highfalutin tastes.’
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This is my favorite thing I get to work on. The way people discover comedians now removes them from all context. I love that we get to put together this list that frames their work in the proper light. Please read and enjoy!

www.vulture.com/article/best...
The Comedians You Should and Will Know of 2025
We surveyed more than 200 industry insiders to determine these 21 comedy stars of tomorrow.
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The first person who said "have a good one" instead of "have a good day" definitely thought they cooked with that.
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I had an impossible chat with Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin about their new HBO show 'The Chair Company,' during which they refused to tell me anything about the show, but we all laughed about how impossible the conversation was.

www.vulture.com/article/tim-...
Take a Seat for Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company Next Month
His new HBO comedy co-created with Zach Kanin premieres on October 12.
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Doing mutual aid to raise the money the Saudi Arabian government was going to pay me to cover the Riyadh comedy festival, which I was definitely 1000% offered but forfeited due to morality reasons.
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Haha. The number one criticism is that I should have spoken to some people with intellectual disabilities to get their perspective on the word, which isn't unfair, though I think there's a fair amount of documentation of that

It's on me for trusting readers enough to not spoonfeed a moral argument.
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Please make a note of all your grievances to yell at me about!
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I wrote a piece about how the R-word is everywhere in stand-up again. You're welcome to yell at me about it, but I would just politely ask that you read the whole article first. Thank you.

www.vulture.com/article/come...
Comedy’s Safest Slur
Left, right, center — everyone is using it. How stand-up has all but killed a controversial term’s taboo.
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"But as the taboo surrounding it diminishes, so too does the comedic value of saying it onstage in order to shock an audience, defend its usage, or use it as I’m-one-of-the-cool-ones shorthand."
hershalpandya.bsky.social
I wrote a piece about how the R-word is everywhere in stand-up again. You're welcome to yell at me about it, but I would just politely ask that you read the whole article first. Thank you.

www.vulture.com/article/come...
Comedy’s Safest Slur
Left, right, center — everyone is using it. How stand-up has all but killed a controversial term’s taboo.
www.vulture.com