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Connecting Bradley Cooper and Aziz Ansari
Bradley Cooper
American actor and filmmaker (born 1975)
In March 2006, Cooper starred as Pip/Theo in '' Three Days of Rain'' on Broadway with Julia Roberts and Paul Rudd.
Paul Rudd
American actor
In 2012, Rudd signed to appear on four episodes of NBC's ''Parks and Recreation'' as Bobby Newport, a candidate for City Council and a rival of Amy Poehler's character Leslie Knope, a role for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series.
Amy Poehler
American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and director
An ensemble cast including Aziz Ansari, Rashida Jones, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, Paul Schneider, and Nick Offerman joined Poehler.
Bradley Cooper
American actor and filmmaker (born 1975)
Films that had influences include the French romantic drama '' Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959), the coming-of-age feature '' The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'' (1962), the war films ''The Deer Hunter'' (1978) and '' Apocalypse Now'' (1979), ''The Elephant Man'' (1980), and comedies featuring Richard Pryor.
Richard Pryor
American comedian and actor (1940–2005)
Dave Chappelle said of Pryor, "You know those, like, evolution charts of man? He was the dude walking upright.
Contributors included George Carlin, Dave Chappelle, Whoopi Goldberg, Ice-T, Paul Mooney, Joan Rivers, and Lily Tomlin.
A television documentary, ''Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!'' (2003) consisted of archival footage of Pryor's performances and testimonials from fellow comedians, including Dave Chappelle, Denis Leary, Chris Rock, and Wanda Sykes, on Pryor's influence on comedy.
Several prolific comedians who have claimed Pryor as an influence include George Carlin, Dave Attell, Martin Lawrence, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Colin Quinn, Patrice O'Neal, Bill Hicks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Bill Burr, Joey Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Louis C.K., and Eddie Izzard.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}
Dave Chappelle
He has also collaborated with Aziz Ansari for three stand-up shows in Austin, Texas at the Paramount Theater.
President of the Kennedy Center Deborah Rutter stated "Dave is the embodiment of Mark Twain's observation that 'against the assault of humor, nothing can stand'... and for three decades, Dave has challenged us to see hot-button issues from his entirely original yet relatable experience." The set of people honoring Chappelle included Jon Stewart, Bradley Cooper, Morgan Freeman, Lorne Michaels, Tiffany Haddish, Aziz Ansari, Sarah Silverman, Neal Brennan, Q-Tip, Mos Def, John Legend, Frederic Yonnet, Erykah Badu, Common, '' SNL'' cast members Kenan Thompson, Michael Che and Colin Jost, as well as Eddie Murphy.
Those to honor Chappelle at the event included Jon Stewart, Bradley Cooper, Aziz Ansari, Sarah Silverman, Chris Tucker, Frederic Yonnet and Lorne Michaels.
Bradley Cooper
American actor and filmmaker (born 1975)
It also starred Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Jennifer Lawrence. '' American Hustle'' was a critical and commercial success with global revenues of $251.1 million.
Amy Adams
Adams next featured in ''Her'', a drama from writer-director Spike Jonze about a lonely man (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with an artificial intelligence (voiced by Scarlett Johansson); she played his close friend.
Spike Jonze
American actor and filmmaker (born 1969)
In that year, Jonze also filmed the Aziz Ansari stand-up special '' Right Now'', operating close-up shots himself onstage. He won two consecutive Directors Guild of America Awards for his commercial work in 2018 and 2019.
Bradley Cooper
American actor and filmmaker (born 1975)
He played Phil Wenneck, one of the three friends—alongside Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis—to wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. '' The Hangover'' was a commercial success and finished as among the highest-grossing R-rated films in the United States. A. O. Scott of '' The New York Times'' wrote, "Mr. Cooper ... offers the most interesting variation on an old standard, playing his aggressive, cocky frat boy with a snarl of rage that masks an anxiety as hard to account for as it is to miss." For his performance, Cooper received an award at the 13th Hollywood Film Festival and his first nomination for MTV Movie Awards—Best Comedic Performance. '' The Daily Telegraph'' opined that the film's success turned Cooper into "a bona fide leading man".
Ed Helms
American actor, comedian, singer, writer and producer
He had minor roles, including ''Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian'', ''Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story'', '' Meet Dave'', ''Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay'', '' I'll Believe You'', '' Evan Almighty'', ''Semi-Pro'' and, with ''The Office'' co-star Jenna Fischer, ''Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story''. In 2009, Helms appeared in '' The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard'', directed by Neal Brennan and starring Jeremy Piven, and in 2012, he voiced the Once-ler in '' The Lorax''.
Neal Brennan
American writer, comedian, and producer (born 1973)
The show has strayed from its guest format on occasion with guests such as comedian and actor Bobby Lee, former pornographic actress Sasha Grey, former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco and comedian/actor Aziz Ansari.
