Aziz Ansari goes into detail about the distance he keeps as a way to protect what he refers to as “a mental diet”
“Everyone thinks about their diet and what they eat [and] at a certain point, it’s also about thinking about your mental diet and what you’re putting in your head,” continues the 38-year-old. “Whether it’s looking at the same four websites, constantly checkingThough he doesn’t specify why he switched up his lifestyle, Ansari retreated a bit from public life following the 2018 publication of a controversial article on the now-shuttered website Babe.net.
Like he’s doing on the stand-up stage on tour and in a new Netflix special, making jokes and creating content seems to be a sweet spot for Ansari. He tells Hart that he hopes to continue both and possibly do more seasons of his critically acclaimed series. The Netflix series pivoted amid the pandemic and featured a storyline for season three centered on Lena Waithe’s character Denise and her relationship with girlfriend Alicia , with Ansari behind the scenes as writer and director.
“I’m really happy where I’m at now,” he says. “If I can just kind of keep getting to do stand-up every now and then, and put out specials and do tours, and then in between that, work on writing and directing projects that I’m passionate about, whether they’re films or other seasons of That dream also includes a family. “I’ve done stuff where I’ve gotten the awards and all this stuff, and I’ve done stuff where maybe that didn’t come.