Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically.

Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically.

The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and there's a lot of violence and corruption.

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

It really helped to have someone whose taste I really trusted who I knew was really smart and a really good writer. Sometimes I find it hard to judge my own work so it was good to have someone who could look at it. It was like, "Oh, she likes it, then it's good."

On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people.