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My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.

~Aasif Mandvi

Topics: After All-Time Animosity Daily Daily Show Decade Dial Fear Fever Fright Gain High Media Mistrust Muslims Pitch Politicians Ratings Seemed September Show Started Tenure Up Votes

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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

~Aasif Mandvi

Topics: Absurdity Always Am Back Being Best Between Both Both Sides Brown Commenting Cultures Daily Daily Show Doing Fence Get Goes Great Great Joy Guy Insider Joy Kid Me Outsider Playing Show Sides Sit Sometimes Stuff White World I Am

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What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

~Aasif Mandvi

Topics: About Anywhere Anywhere Else Daily Daily Show Else Envelope Even Great Journalist Push Satire Show Use I Can

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The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.

~Aasif Mandvi

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I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'

~Aasif Mandvi

Topics: American Because Been British Consider Daily Daily Show Different Different Places Experiences Free Good Good Thing Indian Kind Lot Me Myself Objectively Places See Show Thing Things Ways A Good Thing

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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.

~Aasif Mandvi

Topics: Actor Also Always Been Being Comedian Daily Daily Show Did Dramatic Focused How Lot Myself People See Show Show People Since Stand-Up Think Work I See

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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.

~Aasif Mandvi

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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.

~Aasif Mandvi

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I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

~Aasif Mandvi

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People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.

~Al Madrigal

Topics: About Boy Business Comedy Daily Daily Show Got Me Only People Reality See Show Standup

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