American - Actor | September 23, 1985 -
I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, 'This is what it is. This is unfair; that's not cool.'
Hasan Minhaj
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When you can tailor your act, you want it to be about yourself but also about the people in the room and the experience you guys are having in that moment; it is really a special thing.
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My favorite comedians are just presenting an argument, and they're doing it in a funny way.
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When you grow up as a minority in a majority culture, a lot of times, you're just trying to fit in.
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I'm addicted to chocolate chip cookies. I mean that seriously. If there are chocolate chip cookies, I will devour them.
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Being healthy is the crown that only the sick can see. A lot of times, we take it for granted.
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My mom works at the VA; she's been working at the VA for 15 plus years, and yet she's helping so many veterans coming back from brown Muslim countries, and my mom treats them. It's this weird - sometimes I feel torn. It's this dual identity. I'm so proud to be American, and at the same time, I disagree with our foreign policy.
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The traditional Hollywood system is pretty rigid, but the film scene in, say, South Africa is booming with a lot of possibilities. If you have the cameras and reasonable capital, you can put your film in theatres next to 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' A great example of that was Kagiso Lediga's film 'Blitz Patrole.'
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Only in America can the first-generation Indian American Muslim kid get on the stage and make fun of the president.
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Donald Trump is an extremist leader who came out of nowhere. He's self-financed, recruits through social media, attracts his followers with a radical ideology to take over the world, and is actively trying to promote a war between Islam and the West.
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Donald Trump is white ISIS - WISIS.
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I'm just an American citizen like everyone else and I'm not sitting at the power table in the room where it all happens.
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