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Aasif Mandvi

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My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings. - Aasif Mandvi
#Daily
#Fear
#Fever
#Media
#Politicians
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. - Aasif Mandvi
#Acting
#Comedy
#Doing
#Good
#Student
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! - Aasif Mandvi
#Future
#Hot
#Internet
#Love
#Television
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from. - Aasif Mandvi
#Come
#Fact
#Matter
#Never
#View
In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it! - Aasif Mandvi
#America
#Food
#Never
#New
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'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile! - Aasif Mandvi
#America
#Family
#Hope
#People
#Smile
You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else. - Aasif Mandvi
#Building
#Comfort
#Hate
#House
#Talk
I'm not really a food connoisseur. - Aasif Mandvi
#Connoisseur
#Food
#Really
I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care. - Aasif Mandvi
#Care
#don't Care
#Fake
#True
#View
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. - Aasif Mandvi
#Always
#More
#Representative
#Worst
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. - Aasif Mandvi
#Best
#Daily
#Great
#Joy
#World
If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone. - Aasif Mandvi
#Acknowledge
#Bad
#Differences
#Someone
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. 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. - Aasif Mandvi
#Best
#Family
#Love
#Marriage
#Romantic
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. - Aasif Mandvi
#Day
#Eating
#Every Day
#Mom
#Never
I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor. - Aasif Mandvi
#American
#Born
#Me
#Person
#Way
I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is. - Aasif Mandvi
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#Believe
#Hate
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