Androgynous Bowl-Cuts: The Gateway to Fame

I just finished reading Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), and I've come to a conclusion: the secret to comedic fame is surviving a childhood bowl-cut.

Kaling's playful memoir inevitably recall's Tina Fey's recent narrative, Bossypants, (which, if you can get past the nauseating cover photo, is an excellent read.) Female comedians, NBC programming, awkward anecdotes--they're just so darn similar.

But the primary unifying factor in these books is bad hair. Both of these women proudly tout their childhood 'dos, and credit their mangy locks for making them the person they are today.

Fey (above) rocking a combination
bowl-cut-mullet. That's gotta hurt. 

"The author as child star of the TLC
series 'Androgynous Kids and Puppets,' the
less-successful predecessor of 'Toddlers and Tiaras.'"

I survived a pretty gruesome pageboy in first grade. Who knows; maybe there's hope for me yet.