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Community premieres tonight on NBC at 9:30pm, and associate degrees have never been so hot. Danny Pudi plays a hyperactive student who ends up in a study group with various other misfits (misfits like Chevy Chase, that is). But is this half-Indian, half-Polish Chicago comic really community college material? Comedy editor Jane Borden found out:

Tell me a little bit about your character, Abed.
I talk a little too fast, because I don’t have a filter. I don’t really pick up on social cues. I might scare you a little too long. I mean, I will not break eye contact until you do… Uh-oh: Are we having a staring contest now?

Yep.
Okay.  Oh, this is serious.

Have you played more characters that aren’t from India than that are?
I played a Turkish French guy.… Oh no, you won; I looked away.
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