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Grub Street Interview

Dan Nainan, left, is a shrewd comedian, with a bent for the ironic. He works clean, without profanity or blue jokes. “Jerry Seinfeld advised me to work clean. He said I could then work anywhere and I do.” Born in Bloomington, his father is Indian and his mother is Japanese. Nainan puts his ethnicity to good use. “I get my sushi at 7-11,” he says. “I’m so Japanese I was born cordless.” In this interview, Nainan talks of comedy, today, how it’s more business than show and how it calls for vision, hard work and determination. [Click to read more]