10 pieces of wisdom from Mindy Kaling

'The Office' actress Mindy Kaling writes about karaoke and a horrible audition where she looked like Angelina Ballerina.

7. Romantic comedies are a world all their own

Kaling says she's found recurring characters in romantic comedies that just don't exist, including "the forty-two-year-old mother of the thirty-year-old male lead," she writes. "I am so accustomed to the young mom phenomenon, that when I saw the poster for 'The Proposal,' I wondered for a second if the proposal in the movie was Ryan Reynolds suggesting he send his mother, Sandra Bullock, to an old-age home."

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