Hershal Pandya
@Hershal_P
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I write about comedy @Vulture.
Toronto, ON
Joined March 2011
I love online discourse! I love to live in the "age of information!" It's like I have a printing press on the back of my eyelids!
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Every creator of a TV comedy: What if the protagonist was — get this — vapid and self-obsessed? Television networks: No way! You wouldn't! Creator: It's revolutionary. Network: Here's millions of dollars.
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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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Thinking about the tribute video they'll show when LeBron plays in Toronto for the last time, and how it's going to be full of highlights every Raptors fan would rather forget.
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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?" https://t.co/QlkI4gvUIw
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He’s a man of ‘very highfalutin tastes.’
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They have done it again!!! expertly crafted list, full of people who I love to watch on shows!!!
Presenting Vulture’s 2025 Comedians You Should and Will Know — 21 performers recommended by us and over 200 in-the-know industry sources. Get familiar with them now before they’re everywhere.
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Nate Bargatze is a great comedian, but he was always going to be a strange fit as an awards show host. I wrote about his Emmys performance. https://t.co/U4QPT3j8l6
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He couldn’t figure out how to position himself as a celebrity outsider or insider, and by trying to keep a foot in each camp, he fell flat.
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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! https://t.co/jOS7FO1WLZ
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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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Maude Apatow's directorial debut 'Poetic License' is so much better than I was expecting it to be, but my main takeaway from it was: COOPER HOFFMAN. https://t.co/kwWNC5Rg3I
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Had a great time watching 'Eternity.' Maybe too great, given the movie's premise. I wrote about it here. https://t.co/YDDcCz3R20
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For a movie with such high emotional stakes, this would-be tearjerker sure has a lot of jokes.
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This is more interesting than any other movie intro I've seen at the festival. Feels like the media section needs to...take a breath?
HAMNET’s Chloé Zhao, alongside Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, is leading the Roy Thomson Hall audience in a breathing exercise. The media section in the mezzanine isn’t having it. #TIFF50
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Maude Apatow's directorial debut 'Poetic License' is so much better than I was expecting it to be, but my main takeaway from it was: COOPER HOFFMAN. https://t.co/kwWNC5Rg3I
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In Poetic License, Hoffman is like a Gen-Z Vince Vaughn, bullshitting sophistication at a mile a minute, but also too sensitive for this world.
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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. https://t.co/ElI8N8WKkt
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Check out the trailer for his HBO comedy series co-created with Zach Kanin.
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Wrote about Aziz Ansari's new movie. This Keanu Reeves guy is pretty great. Who knew? #TIFF
https://t.co/JJkDukHyhR
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The comedian’s feature directorial debut makes a point about economic precarity in America that is well-intentioned, if a bit obvious.
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Wrote about John Early's directorial debut 'Maddie's Secret,' which is very good at being the movie it is trying to be, and also ruined my ability to watch online food videos forever. https://t.co/HGkJ8W9xE1
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The comedian’s directorial debut mines melodrama for comedy, but pushes it so far, it swings back around to being emotionally affecting again.
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Wrote about the John Candy doc premiere at TIFF, which Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a speech at and somehow found a way to make it about the tariff war. https://t.co/WJSzBDnJf6
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Colin Hanks’s new documentary, John Candy: I Like Me, while pleasant enough, is hampered by a desire to serve a particular narrative.
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