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

The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

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 peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

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

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

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.

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.