Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

Comedy can reach many more people than, say, a serious lecture on the topic. And comedy might just be the access point to reach people who want to be entertained and also learn something.