Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the “Daily Show”, she was like no – there is no – the only way you’ll learn this job is by doing this job.
AASIF MANDVIIf people invited Muslims into their home every week by way of a TV show would go a long way to making people feel comfortable with Muslims and countering misconceptions about who we are. Plus, of course, that will make it easier for us to impose sharia law across America.
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So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.
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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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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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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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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad
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I was born in India – but never really lived there.
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Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.
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Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.
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In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism – this idea of my own personal fulfillment.
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Of course the law’s not racist.
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Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.
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Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.
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England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.
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I think I discovered my first, you know, my first image of a naked woman was sort of sneaking a peek at one of those magazines that was in my dad’s store.
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I’ve always said I’m the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that’s ever existed, because I’ve been inside more bars than mosques.
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