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Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.

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Aziz Ansari
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: February 23
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
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Television Actor
Columbia
South Carolina
Aziz Ishmael Ansari
Aziz Ismail Ansari
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I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.
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Come cook food with me and do nothing.
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I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.
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You've got to be pretty confident that you're good. If I do a show and for whatever reason no one laughs, I'll be like, 'Wow, those people are weird'.
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I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.
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I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.
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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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You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.
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I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.
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