aziz ansari is blowing up

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting profile on comic actor Aziz Ansari, who's been on the MTV sketch comedy show Human Giant, played one of the new interns on Scrubs, and will now been seen starring on the new NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation: The Rise of the Likable Jerk.

Next, you'll see him as a lotion salesman in the Seth Rogen comedy Observe and Report, and as a hyperactive stand-up comic in Judd Apatow's Funny People. Parks and Recreation premieres on Thursday, April 9.