Watch the first trailer for Mindy Kaling's new show

The first trailer for Mindy Kaling's hyper-anticipated new comedy, The Mindy Project, is finally upon us. And, it looks good! Kaling's follow-up to the soon-to-be-euthanized The Office looks like it plays to all Kaling's best comedic strengths, i.e. charmingly self-involved characters on whom Sex and the City has had a huge, disastrous influence.

Here's Fox's official description of the show: 

"The Mindy Project is a new single-camera comedy from Emmy Award-nominated writer/producer and New York Times best-selling author Mindy Kaling (The Office) that follows a woman who, despite having a successful career, desperately needs to break bad habits in her personal life. After all, how many doctors make inappropriate toasts at their ex-boyfriend's wedding, nearly drown at the bottom of a stranger's pool and get arrested for disorderly conduct just moments before having to deliver a baby? Funny, impatient and politically incorrect, Mindy Lahiri (Kaling) can quote every romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan that exists. She loves the good ones and the bad ones, because the girl always gets the guy. Mindy is determined to be more punctual, spend less money, lose weight and read more books - all in pursuit of becoming a well-rounded perfect woman... who can meet and date the perfect guy. Mindy is a skilled OB/GYN and shares a practice with a few other doctors, none of whom make life any easier for her."

In the trailer alone we see Kaling make a drunken scene at her ex-boyfriend's wedding, end up in prison for disorderly conduct, and quietly pray before a first date that the guy in question have "the wealth of Mayor Bloomberg, the personality of Jon Stewart, the face of Michael Fassbender... [and] the penis of Michael Fassbender." This is all well and good, but with her new show and the death of The Office, will she still be able to make Subtle Sexuality videos? We can only hope.

Commentarium (5 Comments)

May 15 12 - 10:27am
cc

yaaay i am psyched it looks hysterical! :D or at least funny and truer than that awful girls show.

mindy will we have it on the internet?? you know your lovelies don't have cable.

May 15 12 - 11:32am
Harrison

I'm glad that they're bringing back Ally McBeal. I really liked that show. I like the twist where instead of her being a lawyer, now she's a doctor.

May 15 12 - 9:40pm
ag

LOL.

May 15 12 - 5:33pm
Jeez I Dunno

Jeez, I dunno

May 16 12 - 6:54pm
doggiedog

wow, I sadly do not like this at all! unexpected coming from her, but then again, it's on fox, so likely the result of their "creative direction"