I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.

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

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

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

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

I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.