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.

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

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.

Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists.

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

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.