Aziz Ansari has been doing stand-up for 25 years. He calls his Hypothetical Tour his best yet

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Set us as preferred Aziz Ansari has been thinking about the fact that he has been on the road for a long time.Long in two ways, he adds.“I’ve been doing stand-up for 25 years, although when I say that, it doesn’t even sound right,” he says by phone from an airport in Australia, where his Hypothetical Tour recently took him.

(He will record this as a Netflix special later this month.)But Ansari, who was preparing to fly to Los Angeles for a show at the Dolby Theatre on Wednesday, has also been feeling the effect of this current tour, which actually started 20 months ago, although it was paused twice — once for publicity for “Good Fortune,” his feature film directorial debut, and once to prepare for another film that didn’t end up happening.At 43, the former “Parks and Recreation” star and “Master of None” co-creator still loves stand-up — more than TV, more than movies — but he finds touring “really exhausting.”“I can’t run around the way I used to when I was younger,” he says.“I just don’t have the same energy.

Also, I’m married and it’s tough being away from my wife.” (The couple lives in London.)Ansari still gets amped up talking about comedy and was happy to stay on the phone as long as I wanted to … until he said, “Hold on, I lost my boarding pass,” and hurried off the phone to sort out next steps.He called back a few minutes later, admitting he‘d found it in his pocket.

Just another day on the road.And his current tour is what he prefers to discuss, declining to comment on controversies old and new, like past misconduct allegations (he says he’s addressed them in his “Right Now” special) or his more recent stand-up performance in Riyadh and subsequent visit to “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” But the multihyphenate did talk about refining the material in his set, h...