After his role in a GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial earlier this month, Sikh American actor Guru Singh appears in a skit (above) during last night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Categories: Humor, TV/Movies • Tags: Guru Singh, Honey Boo Boo, Jimmy Kimmel Live
During next weekend’s Super Bowl game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, among the highly anticipated advertisements is the above commercial for GoDaddy.com (a domain name registration service) which features Sikh American actor Guru Singh, who is also known for his role in the short-lived NBC sitcom Outsourced. The annual Super Bowl is one of the largest television events during the year. The National Football League’s championship game has attracted an audience of over 100 million viewers […]
Categories: TV/Movies • Tags: advertisement, Baltimore Ravens, Go Daddy, Guru Singh, National Football League, San Francisco 49ers, Super Bowl
Happy New Year! The end of 2010 has spawned all kinds of retrospectives on that year, mostly in the form of “Top 10” lists of various categories. An interesting exercise is to consider what were the top five stories related to Sikh Americans during 2010. Why the top five and not the top ten? The number five has a special significance to Sikhs: Sikhism originated in Punjab (now in India and Pakistan), which is the land of “five rivers” (“Punj” means “five”, “ab” means “river” or “water”). […]
Categories: Reflections • Tags: Airport security, AIT machines, Barack Obama, Bay Area Civil Rights Report 2010, Darbar Sahib, Golden Temple, Guru Singh, Harmandir Sahib, Kamaldeep Singh Kalsi, Outsourced, Sikh Coalition, Simran Lamba, Tejdeep Singh Rattan, Top 5 Sikh American Stories, TSA, US Army
According to Time Magazine, the NBC’s new sitcom Outsourced was one of the ten worst TV shows in 2010: The idea–naive American middle manager is shipped to India to manage a call center–had all the makings of a, ingenious, timely sitcom about culture clashes and the new global economy. Outsourced, which decided to go the funny-accents and food-poisoning-jokes route instead, was not that comedy. Outsourced received a lot of attention in Sikh circles because on its cast was a Sikh […]
Categories: Humor • Tags: 30 Rock, Guru Singh, NBC, Outsourced
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