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'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!
~ Aasif Mandvi
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Also
America
Assumptions
Audience
Balm
Being
Bias
Broad
Crack
Encourage
Experiencing
Expose
Family
Hope
Muslim
Muslims
Out
People
Providing
Realities
Satire
Smile
Some
Those
Uncles
Using
While
Will
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An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
~ Aasif Mandvi
Answers
Any
Artist
Face
Front
Give
Hold
Job
Mirror
Point
Simply
Take
You
Your
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
~ Aasif Mandvi
American
Being
Bring
Character
Often
Outsider
Perspective
Same
Same Time
Time
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
~ Aasif Mandvi
About
Best
Communal
Community
Creating
Culture
Essentially
Family
Generation
Idea
Indian
Indian Culture
Kind
Love
Marriage
More
Much
Offspring
Parents
Partnership
Romantic
Romantic Love
Some
Where
You
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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
Actor
Also
Always
Been
Being
Comedian
Daily
Daily Show
Did
Dramatic
Dramatic Work
Focused
How
I See
Lot
Myself
People
See
Show
Show People
Since
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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
Always
August
Beginning
Call
Comedic
Daily
Daily Show
First
Full
Full-Time
Geniuses
Going
Got
Guy
Hired
Know
Me
Off
On And Off
Part
Part-Time
Show
Sort
Time
Used
Watch
Were
Whenever
Working
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I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam.
~ Aasif Mandvi
American
Became
Center
Character
Did
Had
Islam
Lead
Lead Character
Lincoln
Muslim
Play
Played
Prize
Pulitzer
Ultimately
Very
Which
Who
Won
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I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?
~ Aasif Mandvi
Between
Distinction
Figure
Good
Make
Muslim
People
Racists
Scared
Should
Terrorist
Then
Want
White
Why
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
~ Aasif Mandvi
Deadline
Go
Google
Hat
Just
Like
Myself
See
Then
Up
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
~ Aasif Mandvi
Acting
Always
Been
Comedy
Doing
Done
Dramatic
Enjoyed
Good
Got
Had
Instinct
Never
Relatively
Something
Sort
Student
Stuff
Theater
Things
Those
Where
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
~ Aasif Mandvi
About
Because
Holy
Me
Mom
Mosque
Never
Nights
Only
Prayed
Rarely
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I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
~ Aasif Mandvi
African
African-American
American
Asian
Developed
Hispanic
I Think
Inclusive
Like
More
Part
Performers
Perhaps
Roles
See
South
Tapestry
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Way
Would
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
~ Aasif Mandvi
About
Allowing
Beauty
Been
Being
Being Judged
Believe
Context
Entirety
Exists
Has-Been
Hate
Hijacked
I Believe
I Believe In
I Think
Idea
Islam
Jihad
Judged
Muslims
Really
Seen
Spirituality
Terrorists
Think
War
Within
You
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
~ Aasif Mandvi
Born
I Was Born
India
Lived
Never
Really
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I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.
~ Aasif Mandvi
Actor
Adulthood
American
Been
Born
England
English
Feel
Grew
Has-Been
Helps
I Feel
I Feel Like
I Think
I Was Born
Indian
Inform
Inside
Kind
Like
Me
Mumbai
Person
Some
States
Stuffed
Then
Things
Think
Those
Up
Way
Which
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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
Beast
Been
Broadway
Culture
Daily
Daily Show
Did
Done
Had
Impact
Merchant
Movies
Mystic
Nature
Nothing
Plays
Pop
Pop Culture
Restaurant
Show
TV
Worked
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
~ Aasif Mandvi
American
Bit
British
Indian
Kind
Like
Little
Little Bit
Person
Sort
Thing
Wrapped
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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
A Good Thing
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
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
~ Aasif Mandvi
Avoid
Big
Friends
Holidays
Jewish
Many
Muslim
Off
Pork
Take
Way
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
~ Aasif Mandvi
Connoisseur
Food
Really
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