If you're like me, as soon as you heard that Special Ed was opening up his blog to contributors, you began thinking, "Hmm...I wonder when the first disagreement between contributors will take place." Well sports fans, you didn't have to wait long.

Welcome to "In Defense Of" where I will try to step up to the plate for those who were unable to step up for themselves. Today's subject is none other then comedian Aziz Ansari, you might know him better as Tom Haverford from NBC's Parks and Recreation, or as RAAAAAAAAANDY from Adam Sandler's Funny People or as Saddamn from Obersve and Report, or as Azia Ansari from his stand up routines, which have been featured prominently on Comedy Central, or from his SMASH MTV Show Human Giant. Oh and he's hosting this thing called the MTV Movie Awards this coming Sunday, some of you may have heard of it.

If you head The Hoffbeast's article last week entitled "Who IS that Asshole? vol 1." you'll know that Aziz himself was on that list, directly behind preteen sensation Justin Bieber. However in that article The Hoffbeast didn't mention Aziz's apperance on his own sketch comedy show, didn't mention his stand up special that has aired on Comedy Central, and lastly didn't mention him hosting the MTV Movie Awards. Mainly the Hoff pointed to his "scene-hijacking moments" in both Funny People and Observe and Report, as proof that he belongs on the WITA list. I whole heartily disagree. I believe that The Hoffbeast is more in the wrong then Jim Joyce on this one.

First, let's start with Observe and Report, which stars Seth Rogen (40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, Pineapple Express, Freaks and Geeks, etc.) I've seen this film, it's terrible. Stay away at all costs. I would rather have H1N1 then ever see more then five minutes of that movie ever again. Even Anna Faris almost nude couldn't save this piece of shit, that's how you know it's bad folks. But do you know what did save it? You might have guessed it...this guy.

In O&R, Aziz plays Saddamn, a lotion salesman in the mall that Rogen protects. You've been in a mall before, I assume. You know the kind of slimy fucks that take this job. They are usually foreigners who can't speak English properly and use their "position of power" to rub lotion all over unsuspecting female customers. They claim shit like this lotion exfoliates, and that it will clear pimples, or some shit. I don't know, I'm a man. I've never had someone rub lotion on me at a mall, normally, for me at least, that behavior goes on behind closed door, or at least a privacy partition at the local massage parlor.

Either way, back to the point, Ronnie (Fat Rogen) thinks that Saddman robbed the Shoe Store in the mall. With the help of Detective Harrison (Ray Liotta), Saddman is interrogated. Saddman it turns out has been the brunt of Ronnie's crazy theories for a while now. Ronnie even suspected Saddman to be plotting to blow up Chick-Fil-A, the beloved fast food chicken themed restaurant. Oh the humanity!

Now where as Hoff sees this as Aziz stealing the movie from Fat Rogen, I see it as Aziz saving the movie from being a total waste of time and moving it into the epic waste of time category. Without this scene the movie would have had almost NO funny parts. Rogen should be thanking Aziz every time the two pass in LA, NYC, or any other location. Honestly, this movie was proof that without a solid group of supports Rogen falls right on his face. I don't consider Aziz a supporter due to the fact that I believe he has under ten minutes in the film. Check out the scene here. It's funny, from "Cover your little breasts with some BUBBBLES," to "My dick is brown you dumb motherfucker," to "Why the fuck would I blow up Chick-Fil-A, it's fucking delicious." Even the silent "Fuck You" battle at the end of the clip is semi funny.

Hoffbeast, have you seen Obersve and Report, did you wanna claw your eyes out of your head like me? I'll be honest with everyone here on the Internets, Aziz is the only thing that kept me entertained. Again he saves this film.

Secondly, the Hoffbeast mentioned Funny People. Before I get into defending Aziz's performance in this movie let me say something: the use of "Photograph" by Ringo Starr in the trailer for this movie is amazing. Now back to defending my boy, I'm not even going to say anything about Funny People. Raaaandy's character was funny, but he wasn't the main point of the movie. The movie it's self bounced around from good to bad, to bad to good and almost everywhere in between. For a movie entitled Funny People at times it wasn't too funny. However the best thing to be born from that Judd Apatow pile of crap is of course Aziz's character RAAAAAAAANDY.

The character of RAAAANDY has taken on a new life, even launching a website for himself. Make sure you're speakers are on (not at work, of course) for a better experience in viewing the site. Aziz is trying to really develop the character, especially now that a RAAAAANDY "spin off" movie has been green lighted. I did some reading up on Aziz's RAAAAANDY and found out that he's supposed to parody Dane Cook and some other mainstream comedians, I think he pulls that off excellently. He's the comedian that's too funny to hate, but you should hate him. If you've never seen it, go watch his documentary about RAAAAAANDY, on the website linked above.

However the best part about RAAAANDY and probably the funniest, is his beef with the other WITA, teen heartthrob Justin Bieber. Here's the video. In it RAAAANDY claims to have written a song called, "Baby, Baby" while Bieber sat in the background and smoked all RAAANDY and his crews pot. Then Bieber stole the lyrics, stole the beat, shot RAAAANDY in the leg and released his song "Baby". Honestly, are you going to tell me that isn't funny? You're trying to sell me that Aziz isn't funny, yet here he is posting a video on Funny or Die that has around 900,000 hits? That's probably as many hits as Hayley Williams' boobs got over the weekend.

Basically Aziz took his success from Funny People and hit the ground running with it. In addition to the full length feature that was greenlighted, RAAAANDY should soon have a "mixtape" out as well. You can download tracks from it, right here, actually. Give it a listen.

In addition Aziz didn't need the help of Judd Apatow to make it big. Sure, it probably didn't hurt him Hoff, but he was well on is way as he was a star on Human Giant, the MTV sketch comedy show. On it he did things like pretending to be a rollerblader and having to tell his parents he was gay (here) and pretending to be a little girl in order to catch a predator (here)

The show was such a hit that fans have been asking for a Third Season for quite some time, but due to conflicting schedules (Aziz and Parks and Recreation, and Paul Scheer's work on The League) the Third Season has been delayed/postponed/whatever. There is a rumor that the three cast mates will be doing something Sunday at the MTV Movie Awards, but who knows.

Closing this point out, how can you say that Aziz is reliant on Judd Apatow, riding his wave of success when HG proves that he can make it on his own. It proves he doesn't need any famous director holding his hand? Quite honestly, I don't think you can.

It's not that I'm angry with the Hoffbeast. Oh hell no, I love his work here on the blog and he's a really cool dude (from all that Special Ed tells me) it's that I happen to think that Aziz is an up and coming star in not only the Televison world, on Parks and Recreation, but also in the Movie world.

I didn't even really get into his stand up special, but I think his bit on Coldstone, speaks for it's self.

In closing, Aziz is not an asshole. His character RAAAAANDY might be, but Aziz himself has worked his ass off to get where he is and he deserves all of your time and attention. Make sure to watch THIS SUNDAY!!! when he hosts the MTV Movie Awards, because apparently they're still trying to relevant.