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Why didn’t you talk about whether women are funny or not? I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn’t.

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Mindy Kaling
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: June 24
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Cambridge
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