I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.

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

I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

It wasn't until I moved to New York that I decided to make a conscious effort to be myself.

Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing what way works. That's what comedy is: you have a topic and you try to just hit it as many different ways as you can.

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. Its specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.