Comedian Mindy Kaling of The Office now has her own TV show—The Mindy Project, about an ob/gyn doctor lookin’ for love, which was inspired by her real-life ob/gyn mother. It will be the first American sitcom created by and starring an Indian American.

Comedian Hari Kondabolu, formerly of Seattle and now of the Fox/FX show Totally Biased, responds:

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....