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Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

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Aziz Ansari
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: February 23
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Columbia
South Carolina
Aziz Ishmael Ansari
Aziz Ismail Ansari
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