Kumail literally had a stand up bit when he was much less well known about being called “Kumar” and how he dreams of the day that he is the goto point of reference that racists use to stereotype other brown people and himself. So Kal should proud of that, at least.
Also, I work with a lot of Middle Eastern and Indian people with a wide variety of names. It is weird that these three celebrities talking about being mistaken for each other all have names starting with K, containing an A, and ending with L. Kumail, Kunal, and Kal. Maybe it’s not so much about them being mistaken for each other but switching similar names around, like white guys called Kayden, Brayden, and Layden.
I could only identify Chris Pratt in a line up. I struggle to differentiate between Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling. Then again, I’ve only been to the cinema 6 times in the past decade. Any celebrity news sounds like “curtains for Zoosha” to me.
Heh, in a workplace that loves to make acronyms, they suspiciously kept saying one very long phrase over and over, never ever acronyming it. It would have been CUM.
I mean, it’s also the racism that probably causes people to not give enough of a fuck to bother to recognize the difference; but the grammatical aspect ain’t making it any easier if you read at a 5th grade level
Kumail literally had a stand up bit when he was much less well known about being called “Kumar” and how he dreams of the day that he is the goto point of reference that racists use to stereotype other brown people and himself. So Kal should proud of that, at least.
Also, I work with a lot of Middle Eastern and Indian people with a wide variety of names. It is weird that these three celebrities talking about being mistaken for each other all have names starting with K, containing an A, and ending with L. Kumail, Kunal, and Kal. Maybe it’s not so much about them being mistaken for each other but switching similar names around, like white guys called Kayden, Brayden, and Layden.
I wonder how good we are at distinguishing those Chris actors compared to distinguishing the actors in the OP.
Haha thanks Wiki, there’s a name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Chrises
I could only identify Chris Pratt in a line up. I struggle to differentiate between Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling. Then again, I’ve only been to the cinema 6 times in the past decade. Any celebrity news sounds like “curtains for Zoosha” to me.
They show movies on the TV now! You don’t even need to leave your house.
Honestly, if it’s not worth the event of going out to see it, I’m not going to be enticed by the notion of marvel shit and live action reboots on tv.
Home movie time is for catching up with a century of good cinema e.g. we’ve recently watched Rashomon and Blade Runner.
It says here that Chris Pratt wants people to call him CP
I can’t believe they put CP in the Mario movie
Oh my god, Parks and Rec made CP big.
Heh, in a workplace that loves to make acronyms, they suspiciously kept saying one very long phrase over and over, never ever acronyming it. It would have been CUM.
I’ve worked in a place that dealt with Federal Adjusted Gross Income a lot.
They did acronymitize it, and would PRONOUNCE it.
Speak for yourself!
I did!! :D
I wonderrr how our identification success rates compare
I would get Pratt. The others I would recognize but not know the names lol
It is a running gag my group that I cannot distinguish Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
This is a crazy assumption but Kal seems like a pretty real cat, so I’m kinda confident he was proud
I mean, it’s also the racism that probably causes people to not give enough of a fuck to bother to recognize the difference; but the grammatical aspect ain’t making it any easier if you read at a 5th grade level