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Posted on Fri, Jan 28, 2011 : 1:16 p.m.

'Daily Show''s Aasif Mandvi cooks up an enjoyable 'Today's Special'

By AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist

Today's Special Opens today at the Michigan Theater Review by Corey Hall of the Metro Times Grade: B-

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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."

Read the full review here