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Aasif Mandvi

I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.
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African American Coming Guy Television Thinking
It is ironic that it doesn’t matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?
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Children Iconic Marker Successful Wife
Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.
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Election Statistically Voter Voter Fraud Zero
If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Believe Levels Prophet Muhammad
We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.
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Cast Father Law Pancake Pawn
I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.
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America Culture Dort Fantasized Grew Moving
The great joy of doing ‘The Daily Show’ for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I’m playing the brown guy, and sometimes I’m not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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Commenting Culture Great Guy Kids White
I’m Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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Big Friend Holiday Jewish Muslim Off Pork Way
People lament that there’s no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don’t want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don’t get it both ways.
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Asian Character Children Muslim People Role Written
Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.
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Chicken Dish Food National Reverse Today
I was a fan of “The Daily Show” I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you’re reaching people.
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Culture Experience Feel Like People Popular Really You
Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It’s a communal culture where you do what’s best for the community – you procreate.
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Community Culture Essential Indian
When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like – America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.
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America Decide Family Land Like Opportunity Seem Sort
This was in the ’70s and there was a lot of racism towards South Asians and there was a lot of hazing and bullying and racism that really probably shaped me in some way in terms of, like, wanting to get out of there.
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Asian Bullying Hazing Racism South Toward Way
Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It’s already happening, and it’s hot!
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