Of course the law's not racist.

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.

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

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

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 children?

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.

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 necessarily have in the East in the same way because you're kind of told what to do. I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm just saying that's just, like, the reality.