I don't want to tell people what they should think..

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 neve….

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….

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past..

England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places..

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 counte….

Of course the law's not racist..

I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran..

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 ….

Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections..

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the en….

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone..

It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to a British boarding school and we would go to c….

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser art….

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..

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..

This was in the '70s and there was a lot of racism towards South Asians and there was a lot of hazing and bullying and racism that really probably sh….

I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... an….

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 follo….

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 ….

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating….