Move over Justin Bieber. Newly crowned ‘queen of comedy’ Mindy Kaling proved one of the hottest celebrity sightings in town during Austin’s SXSW festival this week, as Seth Meyers and other stars made appearances at the event.

Kaling is the creator, executive producer, writer, and star of The Mindy Project, which was recently renewed for a third season. She also revealed that she’s working on a follow-up to her 2011 bestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

With the Roku Lounge as the backdrop, Kaling spoke with us one-on-one, as a crowd of around 500 people gathered as closely as they could to listen in. At one point, a young woman sitting cross-legged on the floor about five feet away gushed over Kaling’s brightly colored beaded necklace, before asking if she could sit on the star’s pink pantsuit-clad lap.

Kaling responded demurely before shifting back to more burning hot topics, such as why she doesn’t like watching TV shows on a smartphone or tablet, “It’s too small for me, I need to be surrounded [by a big screen] … I don’t find it satisfying to watch an episode of say, Walking Dead, like I can’t be scared if it’s that little [size], and be like ‘Rick run, run, it’s a walker,’ if it’s on a screen that [tiny].”

Kaling also admitted that even though she’s a prolific tweeter and loves to share her life experiences via Instagram (including a recent trip to the White House), she does not consider herself to be very tech savvy,

“The fact that I can stream things on TV with my little Apple remote and I haven’t lost it — it’s the size of a thimble — I’m like a B-minus level.”

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