At 39, Mindy Kaling somehow seems like both a show-business veteran and someone who is still in her creative first bloom. It’s not just that her work — as a writer, producer and actor on the sitcoms “The Office” and “The Mindy Project,” as well as the new movie “Late Night” — has given classic rom-com and workplace comedy tropes a jolt of fresh energy; it’s also that she has helped change Hollywood’s ideas about who’s in charge of making us laugh.
