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Mindy Kaling reacted hilariously after a man mistook her for 17-year-old activist Malala Yousafzai who was recently named a Nobel Prize winner. The star of "The Mindy Project" took to Twitter on Sunday, October 26 to poke fun at the incident, writing, "Honored to have been mistaken for @MalalaFund! (yes, a little bit because she is 17)." She also attached a link to the news article.

According to the piece by The New York Times, Kaling was attending an afterparty for The New Yorker Festival on October 11 when "a tipsy man in his 80s cornered her and showered her with compliments." The man told her, "Congratulations on your Nobel Prize," and expressed wonder how she recovered after being shot by Taliban.

"Did he really think I'm Malala? And that if I were, I'd be at the Boom Boom Room?" the actress said after the man left. "That's the best thing that's happened all night."

"Today" show co-host Willie Geist jokingly sent a tweet to the 35-year-old TV writer. "@MindyKaling, belated congrats on your Nobel Peace Prize! Well deserved, my friend. Fun NYT piece on Mindy explains," Geist wrote. Replying the tweet, Kaling wrote, "@WillieGeist thanks Willie. Is it bad that my first reaction was 'YES!!! SHE IS 17!!!'?"

Honored to have been mistaken for @MalalaFund! (yes, a little bit because she is 17). https://t.co/UD0kpqSwmX

— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) October 26, 2014