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.
Aasif MandviFor anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.
Aasif MandviIn Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
Aasif MandviPaki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.
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