Mindy Kaling, a 35-year-old television star, was mistaken for Malala Yousafzai, a 17-year-old women's and children's rights activist. Oh dear.
From the New York Times:
As she stood by the banquettes, a tipsy man in his 80s cornered her and showered her with compliments, apparently mistaking her for Malala Yousafzai. "Congratulations on your Nobel Prize," he said, before expressing wonder at how well she had recovered from Taliban gunshots.
Ms. Kaling was speechless. "Did he really think I'm Malala?" she said when he was safely out of sight. "And that if I were, I'd be at the Boom Boom Room?"
Of course, Kaling was hilarious about it and didn't bop the drunk geezer upside the head to knock some sense into him. As I might have done.
Mindy Kaling, grace under pressure. Or, more like: Mindy Kaling, grace around inebriated dummies.
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