CBS Buys Comedy Starring ‘The Daily Show’ Correspondent Aasif Mandvi

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 4:30pm PDTTags: CBS, CBS TV Studios

CBS has bought a comedy from The Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi. Mandvi will write and star in the project, about a recently divorced marriage counselor who dispenses relationship advice. Tagline and CBS TV Studios are producing, with Tagline’s Kelly Kulchak and JB Roberts and Mandvi’s manager, Sweet 180′s Lillian LaSalle, exec producing. ICM-repped Mandvi is currently writing a book of semi-autobiographical essays for Chronicle Books. He has two films coming up, Gods Behaving Badly and Premium Rush, and also has a cameo in Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator. CBS has been high on Daily Show correspondents. The network has previously developed projects with Rob Riggle, Demetri Martin and the duo of Jason Jones & Samantha Bee.

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COMMENTS (6)

This is good news for me. Much like Olivia Munn, this will: 1) get an unfunny person off the Daily Show and 2) Dump them into a horrible TV show destined for cancellation. Bye, Mandvi!

Comment by Sorry — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 5:44pm PDT Reply to this post
Truly the WORST actor alive… Mandvi is what happens when entertainment gets cancer. He is simply awful

Comment by henry krinkle — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 7:02pm PDT Reply to this post
Congratulations aasif!!! That’s awesome – u should be proud! So happy for u and I really look forward to seeing the show!!

Comment by Wendy — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 9:35pm PDT Reply to this post
Wow Sorry and henry krinkle, just wow. The two of you have to be the most unfunny and insufferable people on the planet if you don’t like Aasif Mandvi.

Comment by Victor the Crab — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 9:17am PDT Reply to this post
Hooray for celebrating mediocrity in the name of diversity.

Comment by Sbat — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 10:53am PDT Reply to this post
Good for you! So happy for your success and look forward to seeing the show. PS. I think you are hilarious

Comment by Shab — Saturday October 15, 2011 @ 7:26pm PDT Reply to this post

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