'Daily Show''s Aasif Mandvi cooks up an enjoyable 'Today's Special'
Today's Special Opens today at the Michigan Theater Review by Corey Hall of the Metro Times Grade: B-

Actor, writer and, most famously, "Daily Show" correspondent Aasif Mandvi has whipped up a winning indie comedy despite an overload of clichés. Based on Mandvi's Obie-winning play, "Today's Special" is the sort of small, quirky pleasure that invites hokey puns, being laden with a host of familiar themes, from the cooking-as-personal-passion, ethnic-generational family drama genre, exemplified by the memorable likes of "Big Night" and "Babette's Feast."