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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!
Aasif Mandvi
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Aasif Mandvi
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: March 5
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Aasif H. Mandviwala
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I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on The Daily Show. I was an actor. I was sort of - the irony is that I've done as much dramatic work in my career as comedic work and I don't really think of myself as a comedian.
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The Daily Show writers are incredibly smart and very well plugged-in but occasionally they would need me for certain specific things, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I completely know how to do that I can solve that problem,and then I'd be like, 'Mom?
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The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years.
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America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same... and being afraid is not an excuse.
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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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Actually I'm more culturally Muslim than religiously but being Muslim is an important part of my identity. As Muslim, I feel it's important to counter any form of bigotry, be it anti-Semitism, homophobia, racism, etc. These forms of hate share a common denominator of misinformation and intentional fear mongering.
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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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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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Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.
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If 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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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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So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.
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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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You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world - your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?
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