Aasif Mandvi

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

— Aasif Mandvi

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

— Aasif Mandvi

Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka…

— Aasif Mandvi

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.

— Aasif Mandvi

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

— Aasif Mandvi

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

— Aasif Mandvi

The Daily Show writers are incredibly smart and very well plugged-in but occasionally they would need me for certain specific things, and…

— Aasif Mandvi

I'm not really a food connoisseur.

— Aasif Mandvi

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

— Aasif Mandvi

In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my…

— Aasif Mandvi

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his…

— Aasif Mandvi

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

— Aasif Mandvi

This was in the '70s and there was a lot of racism towards South Asians and there was a lot of hazing…

— Aasif Mandvi

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…

— Aasif Mandvi

I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world…

— Aasif Mandvi

If people invited Muslims into their home every week by way of a TV show would go a long way to making…

— Aasif Mandvi

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a…

— Aasif Mandvi

North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine.

— Aasif Mandvi

I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about…

— Aasif Mandvi

Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the "Daily Show", she was like no - there is no -…

— Aasif Mandvi

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

— Aasif Mandvi

I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television…

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For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of…

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

— Aasif Mandvi

Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I…

— Aasif Mandvi