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

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 find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up.

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

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

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 is that I've done as much dramatic work in my career as comedic work and I don't really think of myself as a comedian.

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

I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.