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Aziz Ansari has been doing stand-up for 25 years. He calls his Hypothetical Tour his best yet - Los Angeles Times

·Oct 6, 2026
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Aziz Ansari has been thinking about the fact that he has been on the road for a long time. Long in two ways, he adds. “I’ve been doing stand-up for 25 years, although when I say that, it doesn’t even sound right,” he says by phone from an airport in Australia, where his Hypothetical Tour recently took him. (He will record this as a Netflix special later this month.)But Ansari, who was preparing to fly to Los Angeles for a show at the Dolby Theatre on Wednesday, has also been feeling the effect of this current tour, which actually started 20 months ago, although it was paused twice — once for publicity for “Good Fortune,” his feature film directorial debut, and once to prepare for another film that didn’t end up happening. At 43, the former “Parks and Recreation” star and “Master of None” co-creator still loves stand-up — more than TV, more than movies — but he finds touring “really exhausting.”“I can’t run around the way I used to when I was younger,” he says. “I just don’t have the same energy.

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