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Honestly, I would love to be friends with Fox Mulder on 'The X-Files.' That's almost a little too obvious, but that would be my answer. I'd love to hang out with him.

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When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.

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

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I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

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

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

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

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I stay home. It's the best place to be alone. There is hardly any walk-through traffic.

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'Four Weddings and a Funeral' is one of my favorite movies, and I laugh all the time, and I cry during the one funeral. But I'll say that 'Monsters, Inc.' is a movie that really gets me super-emotional. Especially the ending.

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I thought, from watching TV and stuff, that America was one place. They only show you L.A. and New York. They don't warn you about Iowa.

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Biography

Nationality: Pakistani

Type: Comedian

Born: February 21st, 1978

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