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# Watch Aziz Ansari Get Ridiculous With Grover on _Sesame Street_

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## Melissa Locker


Oct 21, 2014 4:31 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Oct 21, 2014 4:31 PM UTC

Over the years, stars like [Benedict Cumberbatch](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/04/stop-the-internet-benedict-cumberbatch-stopped-by-sesame-street/), [Katy Perry](http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/09/23/katy-perry-too-revealing-for-sesame-street/) and [Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/11/sonia-sotomayor-on-sesame-street-princess-is-not-a-career/) have all stopped by _Sesame Street_ to help educate the children who tune in to the [PBS mainstay](http://time.com/3404693/pbs-new-shows/), but none of the celebrities have been as flat out _ridiculous_ as Aziz Ansari.

The “cute and fuzzy” _Parks and Recreation_ star stopped by _Sesame Street_ to help Grover announce the Word of the Day. While Ansari tries to figure out the word, Grover wants him to do all sorts of incredibly silly things, like wear a chicken suit and a stovepipe hat so bright even _The Cat in the Hat_ would think twice. Grover even proposes that they announce the word while dangling upside down, but [don’t let’s be silly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYcFJLl6JZs). What’s the word of the day? Watch the video to find out.

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