“I thought of writing a humor book that was also a sociology book, so that it actually has some heft.” But for that he’d have to conduct a study-and for that he’d need a sociologist. Rather than rehashing his comedy he “wanted it to be an analysis of what everyone’s going through,” he says. When Penguin approached him about turning his comedy into a book, Ansari was struck with an idea. “Everyone’s dealing with frustrations in the private world of their little screens,” he says.īut research shows that online dating has yielded more than just awkward blunders: Between 20, it was the most common way Americans met their spouses-bigger than work, friends, and school combined. His new book, written with a sociologist coauthor, reveals some surprises about romance today.Īnsari began to ask his audiences about their own romantic texts gone awry, and realized he wasn’t just mining their dating lives for comedic material-rather, he was interested in the now near-universal experience of looking for love with technological assistance. The awkwardness of dating in the age of smartphones has provided comedian Aziz Ansari with lots of material.
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