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My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.

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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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