Melanie Chandra

I wish that more, especially South Asians would embrace that.

Because the funny thing is that our parents came here.

They left everything they knew.

They took the biggest risk you possibly could.

Leave everything you know, go to a foreign country, which is every other country.

I don't know why people say foreign country, other country.

Everything that's not your country is foreign.

So they went to a foreign country all the way on the other side of the planet and started with $7 in our pocket, as they always say.

Now so much of the culture is risk averse.

They don't want to take risks.

And I'm like, boy, they want their kids to go a sure shot, be doctors and engineers and all that.

I'm glad to see people going into different things because I always found it extremely ironic that they did this great thing, but it was fraught with risk and they made it work.

Absolutely.

Yep.

Pretty neat stuff.

Same with my parents, too.

Very true, very true.

Whom you adore, and it's very obvious you do, and that's a great quality.

And I've met your parents, and they're great people, I might add.

They are fantastic, fantastic people, grand people.

So lightening it up a little bit, I want to ask you this.

What are some of your favorite comedies, like movies, comedies that stick out to you, whether they're new, they're old, they're classic, they're recent, whatever, where you go, man, that was a funny movie.

I laughed a lot in

that.

I really like Meet the Parents.

I wish that more, especially South Asians would embrace that.

Because the funny thing is that our parents came here.

They left everything they knew.

They took the biggest risk you possibly could.

Leave everything you know, go to a foreign country, which is every other country.

I don't know why people say foreign country, other country.

Everything that's not your country is foreign.

So they went to a foreign country all the way on the other side of the planet and started with $7 in our pocket, as they always say.

Now so much of the culture is risk averse.

They don't want to take risks.

And I'm like, boy, they want their kids to go a sure shot, be doctors and engineers and all that.

I'm glad to see people going into different things because I always found it extremely ironic that they did this great thing, but it was fraught with risk and they made it work.

Absolutely.

Yep.

Pretty neat stuff.

Same with my parents, too.

Very true, very true.

Whom you adore, and it's very obvious you do, and that's a great quality.

And I've met your parents, and they're great people, I might add.

They are fantastic, fantastic people, grand people.

So lightening it up a little bit, I want to ask you this.

What are some of your favorite comedies, like movies, comedies that stick out to you, whether they're new, they're old, they're classic, they're recent, whatever, where you go, man, that was a funny movie.

I laughed a lot in

that.

I really like Meet the Parents.