Aziz Ansari played two back to back shows at the Winter Garden Theatre on Friday night in Toronto. With growing popularity after hosting The MTV Awards this year, and popping up more in movies and television we were happy to catch him in a stand up set.

Todd Barry opened the show with his style of unenthused delivery. He did a good job warming up the crowd for Aziz who was on the opposite end of the energy spectrum – yelling into the mic and falling to the ground during some entertaining storytelling.

Kanye West’s new single “Power” blasted over the speakers followed by a comically refined Ansari who was sporting black tie to the event. He tore through new material; his mic at times to sensitive for his high volume impressions of people including his cousin Harris, R. Kelly and an aggressive ad for a paid adult site.

He pulled a considerately short break for his encore and came out to material requests. A handful were accepted, a few denied. Sadly Raaaaaaaandy was not on the scene after he died in a volcano accident.