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" Sprightly, 27-year-old Aziz Ansari plays Tom, a small-town guy with big-town dreams on NBC&amp;#039;s Parks and Recreation, which returns for its third season in January. We met at Little Dom&amp;#039;s Italian restaurant in Los Angeles one oppressively hot November afternoon.  ESQUIRE: How hard is it to stand up and tell jokes to people? AZIZ ANSARI: It&amp;#039;s not very hard. At a certain point, you&amp;#039;ve got to be pretty confident that you&amp;#039;re good. If I do a show tomorrow and for whatever reason no one laughs, I&amp;#039;ll be like, Wow, those people are weird. ESQ: Does that ever happen?  AA: As far as a specific joke? I always hate telling my jokes in print &amp;#039;cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, Oh, so that&amp;#039;s what that guy does in his stand-up? That&amp;#039;s terrible.  ESQ: Fair enough. Let&amp;#039;s not talk about comedy.  AA: I like food a lot.  ESQ: Great. Let&amp;#039;s talk about food. What kind of food do you like? AA: I like hole-in-the-wall places that are like really good, like taco trucks and things like that.  ESQ: Are you a foodie? AA: I would say so, yeah. Have you been to that Taco Zone truck in Echo Park? ESQ: More times than I care to admit.  AA: Ever get the mulita? ESQ: No, what&amp;#039;s that? AA: Off-menu item. They take a tortilla, put cheese on it, put meat on it, and put another tortilla on top. ESQ: Sounds like a quesadilla.  AA: If it was a quesadilla, it wouldn&amp;#039;t be called a mulita, would it? ESQ: But how does it taste any different? AA: The shape and delivery system are different! It&amp;#039;s a different experience. It&amp;#039;s like sliders and a hamburger. It&amp;#039;s the same thing: a mini-quesadilla versus a quesadilla. Mulitas are the tiny tacos, like the circular thing.  ESQ: So you&amp;#039;re talking about a corn tortilla?  AA: The little tortilla can&amp;#039;t be flour? ESQ: No.  AA: It&amp;#039;s always corn? ESQ: Yes.  AA: Why? ESQ: Why? I don&amp;#039;t know. You&amp;#039;ll have to ask the Mexican community. AA: I&amp;#039;ve never had such a heated conversation about tacos. Usually it&amp;#039;s very positive and people are excited to hear about new things and not ready to take them down.  ESQ: I am excited to hear about new things. AA: No, you&amp;#039;re not. I told you what a mulita was and you said, &amp;quot;Sounds like a fucking quesadilla.&amp;quot; [The corn versus flour tortilla debate continues at great length.] AA: They both taste the same to me.  ESQ: I&amp;#039;m surprised to hear that, because they&amp;#039;re made with two different things.  AA: What&amp;#039;s the different taste? ESQ: One tastes like flour, one tastes like corn. [Motioning to the plate of pancakes on the table] These are made of flour. [Laughing] Here, taste them so you have a point of reference. AA: You&amp;#039;re being really rude! That was a very condescending thing. Very unnecessary. ESQ: Really? I thought this was a spirited exchange. AA: I&amp;#039;ve never explained mulitas to anyone and then they got mad at me. Everyone else just says, &amp;quot;Oh, that sounds delicious. I&amp;#039;ll try one!&amp;quot; ESQ: Maybe they weren&amp;#039;t really listening to you. I&amp;#039;m a journalist. AA: Isn&amp;#039;t there anything else you want to ask me about? ESQ: Sure. I&amp;#039;ve always wondered, how come it&amp;#039;s not called Parks and Rec? Wouldn&amp;#039;t you think that would be a better title because it&amp;#039;s catchier, and you&amp;#039;d also get the double entendre of rec and wreck?  AA: I think at one point they were debating between Parks and Rec and Parks and Recreation, and Parks and Recreation won out.  ESQ: And you&amp;#039;ve got some movies in development? AA: Yeah, I&amp;#039;m writing a couple of movies, due next year, hopefully. My friend Jason [Woliner] and I are writing a movie for Judd Apatow about two disgraced astronauts who have to go back to the moon to clear their names. And then my friend Harris Wittels is writing a movie for myself and Danny McBride about two guys who are best friends, and then this Olympic athlete has a three-way with their girlfriends, and they seek revenge on him. Hopefully we&amp;#039;ll make them eventually. ESQ: What else do you have going on?  AA: I&amp;#039;ve just been touring, doing stand-up, and I&amp;#039;ll probably record a special, hopefully next year sometime. It&amp;#039;s been fun. ESQ: I saw Funny People, in which you played boorish comic Randy. I thought that was your act. AA: Oh, boy. Is that why you were so mean to me earlier? ESQ: Maybe. What&amp;#039;s your excuse?  AA: When was I mean? ESQ: Would you like me to play the tape? I was being inquisitive.  AA: I don&amp;#039;t know. Let&amp;#039;s move on.  ESQ: I think you&amp;#039;re starting to like me. AA: I&amp;#039;m sure we&amp;#039;ll hang out. ESQ: Well, let&amp;#039;s not get carried away. [After the interview, Ansari walked with us to a local Mexican restaurant, where he tried both corn and flour tortillas. A compromise was reached.] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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