Tonight’s new NBC Thursday lineup might be the first time we’ve seen some sort of Asian American representation in every show in the primetime block for a network. The lineup of the 3 hour primetime block consists of a six comedies including “Community,” “Perfect Couples,” “The Office,” “Parks & Recreation,” “30 Rock” and “Outsourced”. It’s comedy done right all night. Here’s the breakdown of the actors and actresses of Asian descent tonight:
Plenty of Indian American representation. Also of note is that the only show that had any sort of accent is Outsourced. However, the show takes place in India. We hope to see more Asian American representation on the other networks too.
Bollywood dance on from Outsourced to be shown in primetime on NBC
One of comedian Aziz Ansari’s new year’s resolution was to adopt a kid. See how he deals with parenting after he gets a kid. Aziz doesn’t quite use the Tiger Mom techniques. His new son gets taught how to dress, what to drink and eat, and more. However, the kid takes a bit of verbal abuse. Is Aziz Ansari cut out to be a parent?
For the techies, Only Won the Lyrical Engineer released a geeked out mix of Billionaire. Lots of computer and technology references on the track. One look at the Forbes billionaire list and you’ll see the likes of technology leaders Bill Gates and Larry Ellison. And for those actually studying engineering in school, you know you “wanna be an engineer so freakin’ bad.”
I wanna be an engineer so freakin’ bad, optimize the things I’ve always had
I wanna be on the cover of PC Magazine, Smiling next to Pentium machines.
oh everytime I close my eyes, I calculate a new design
yeah….an efficient way to quantify oh ai..I swear
my patent would be here…If I was an engineer
Yeah, I wound have a show on Discovery, hoping that e-ve-ry..
body in the country would watch me on their HD.
I’d probably pull an Orville Wright and a Wilbur
Build a plane and take the rudder and dip it in silver.
Give away a few smartphones, like, Einstein here have this
Take my protractor out and do some mathmatics
It’s been a couple years since I’ve been single so
you can find me working late and living off Ho Ho’s.
Brain food for the intelligent, sometimes I like to complement
myself for being smart, but you can call me brilliant.
Yeah…Call me a geek or maybe even nerd
but face the facts, we da ones be ruling this world.
Everytime I close my eyes (what cha see, what cha see?)
I calculate a new design (uh huh uh huh)
oh ye-ah….an efficient way to quantify oh ai..I swear
my patent would be here…If I was an engineer
ohhh ohhhh….Yeah, I’m an engineer! oohh ohhhh….
I be playin Xbox with some scientists, workin’ with geologist
maybe ask a girl out and get lucky with little kiss.
Or not because I have to…formulate a program
in C++ or going back and using Fortran.
Toss a few equations in just for the heck of it.
Solve my own problem just so I can delineate
Yeah, I be comin’ on a whole new level.
Like comparing HDMI to a coax cable.
Sometimes I give directions with Euclidean vectors
And transfer files faster on eSATA connectors.
…I know we all have a simular dream
to build cantilever beams,…it makes me wanna sing
I wanna be an engineer so freakin’ bad, optimize the things I’ve always had
I wanna be on the cover of PC Magazine, Smiling next to Pentium machines.
Everytime I close my eyes, I calculate a new design
an efficient way to quantify oh ai..I swear
my patent would be here…If I was an engineer
ooh ohhh….(“Yeah! Solve it!) If I was an engineer! ohh ohh
Chuck Free Pham dropped the music video “Had To Hustle.” He sings for democracy and human rights as he rhymes about the struggles from a Vietnamese perspective. It’s the definition of the next generation of the true Vietnamese. Chuck Free Pham also showing off some of his kicks. The video was directed by Adele Pham and shot in Portland.
Had To Hustle by Chuck Free Pham (contains profanity)
