Comedian Aziz Ansari is on "Parks and Recreation" and is hosting the MTV movie awards.

What Mr. Ansari won’t do is exploit his minority status for laughs, or make it the focus of his comedy. You won’t hear him opining about his parents’ background as Tamil Muslims from India, and he said he’s tired of people’s assumptions that he encountered rampant racism growing up in the South.

He grew up in Columbia, South Carolina.