Snobbish tale to fill a lonely romantic’s void
Characters resemble their horses, rich and vacuous; it’s hard to suppress the yawns, writes Beverley Roos-Muller
the 2000s. In his memoir
released in March, Chandrasekhar tells the story of how an Indian-American kid from suburban Illinois grew up to become an improbable Hollywood success story. He also writes about smoking weed with Willie Nelson, directing acclaimed TV shows like and finally getting to make a (crowd-funded) sequel to You’ve written plenty of scripts, sketches and jokes. How did writing a book compare?
The thing about writing a book, particularly a memoir, is that you know where the story is going and you know the details of what happened along the way – as opposed to a script, where (anything is possible). What you end up thinking about is all the major moments in your life. You can just write about those moments and connect them. Did you have trouble remembering some of the stories for the book?
I have journals that start at 10. I have a journal entry from the night I lost my virginity. I have a condom that I taped into the journal. I have very specific reflections on breakups and whatever. What should fans going to your stand-up shows expect?
I tell a lot of stories. They’re more stories from my real life. They’re dirty, for sure – there’s a fair bit of hopefully smart sexual stories and hard-drinking and drug stories and then I tell stories about all the movies, too. Basically every studio passed on Super Troopers before Miramax decided to develop it and Fox ultimately released it. Is that part of why you went the Indiegogo route for the sequel?