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Aasif Mandvi

Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I experienced
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Bradford Danger Home Kid Population School Something Specially Today
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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America Essential Idea Ideas Individual Kind Own West
North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state’s new voting restrictions are just fine.
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Carolina Definitely Don Member North Restriction State Thinking Voting Yelton
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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Anyone Bashing Beat General Kind Subcontinent Used
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
Getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.
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Bus Chased English Getting Home Kid Praying Stop
You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, “Gunga Din” has come back.
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Back Come England Pub Samosa Today
For anybody who’s ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.
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End Like Logic Something Used Violence
I’m not really a food connoisseur.
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Connoisseur Food Really
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
When I was 11 my friend’s mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, ‘I’m never eating anything else again.’ And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
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Ate Eating Friend Made Mom Peanut Butter Sandwich
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
Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.
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Bigot Chechen Committee Creative Good Luck
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’s an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.
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Analyze Away Going Try Trying Worry
I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it’s been something that I’ve always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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