It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away..

My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to fi….

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes..

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from..

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mir….

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles..

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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

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….

Of course the law's not racist..

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….

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….

When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat….

In some ways for many years I was off the hook.When my niece was born after that their attention was focused on that and she did that. You know, that….

Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent..

I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain..