For being nominated as BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES for your role as Abed Nadir in Community in the 3rd Annual Critics Choice Television Awards!!!(x)
Divya’s List of Favorite Human Beings → Danny Pudi
“If it were up to me, I’d run naked. I’d wear sunglasses. People won’t recognize me with glasses. You would see a barefoot guy with shoes on his hands, naked with sunglasses, singing weird Polish songs.”Happy 34th birthday!
Community Cast at TV Guide’s Paleyfest Photo Booth (x)
Do you know… Abed Nadir?
Being the pop culture aficionado that he is, Abed Nadir (played by Danny Pudi) is going to school to make movies (originally he was going to college for business so he could run his father’s falafel business). Seeing the world with TV screen glasses, Abed understands norms and mores through movies and television. One of his main motivations to be part of the study group was so his life could be like The Breakfast Club.
Abed is part-Palestinian (father) and part-Polish (mother). When he was younger, Abed’s parents divorced. Abed assumed that he put a strain on the relationship because he was neurally atypical. This caused a distant relationship with his father who he thinks blames him.
Being in the study group, Abed became best friends with Troy Barnes, former high school jock. They share similar interest like making blanket forts and watching Kickpuncher.
Fun Facts!
- Abed has trouble reading analog clocks.
- Abed likes to dress up as his favorite characters and pretend to be them. He makes an entire room inside his apartment to play out his fantasies.
- Abed knows how to deliver a baby.
Significant Episodes:
- Introduction to Film
- Contemporary American Poultry
- Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas
- Critical Film Studies
- Virtual Systems Analysis
"We are brown and white twins!" says Pudi about him and Paul.
