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….

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….

The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque ….

There's this existential crisis in America and in the West of, like - who am I? - based on this searching for individual fulfillment, which you don't….

It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have c….

I mean, but obviously, in people's eyes, it still - it can still link Islam to terrorism. I mean, why does it make a difference that they're white?.

You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back..

I think one of my favorite pieces I've ever done on the show which was about Hezbollah Israel conflict in 2006 and it was very pointed. It was a beau….

I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So wh….

I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on "The Daily Show". I was an actor. I was sort of - the irony ….

Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the "Daily Show", she was like no - there is no - the only way you'll learn this job is by doing this….

If people invited Muslims into their home every week by way of a TV show would go a long way to making people feel comfortable with Muslims and count….

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people..

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

I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert im….

For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of brunch. He didn't quite know what it was. And ….

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala..