American - Comedian | February 26, 1972 -
I've had people come up to me after the show and say, 'Why did you not make fun of Pakistan?' People are actually upset you didn't talk about them.
Maz Jobrani
FunPeopleMeYouSayUpset
Comedy can take you a lot further in getting your point across. People are entertained, and then, by being entertained, they get your point.
PeopleComedyYouPointTakeGet
I was at UC Berkeley as an undergrad when my father lost a lot of money in real estate investments in Northern California. He wanted a change of pace, so in the early '90s, my family moved to L.A., right in the middle of Tehrangeles. It was a culture shock for me.
FamilyChangeFatherCultureMoney
Your stereotypical L.A. Persian kids were not working at Sbarro pizza in the mall, but I was.
PizzaMallWorkingKidsYourWere
I took one acting class as an undergrad, and I loved it. I was in a very avant-garde play at UCLA about a closeted, married homosexual. I played his father.
FatherLovedActingPlayClassVery
I've grown so accustomed to my life in L.A., going to a Coffee Bean or getting breakfast at Kings Road Cafe. I've seen a lot of the world, but the diversity we have here is different. It's a mishmash, which is a nice comfort.
LifeCoffeeDiversityBreakfastRoad
I would say that while most Muslims take offense at the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad in cartoons, they would never resort to violence. It is a minority of extremist Muslims who take such actions, and they do it for political and tactical reasons far beyond just being offended.
PoliticalViolenceSayBeyondNever
I quickly came to realize that in the Middle East, God is God, and in the West, the sponsor is God - or, as I like to say, Tide detergent is God.
GodTideSayRealizeWestMiddle
One thing about D.C. that's funny to me is that you end up running into famous political figures who you've seen on television who you think are not real until you see them.
FunnyMeThinkEndPoliticalYou
Coming from L.A. to D.C., I'm always impressed that in D.C., people are doing the things that the people in L.A. are pretending to do. Whenever I'm in D.C., I ask people what they do, and they say, 'I'm with the agency, or I'm with State.' In L.A., I ran into a guy who said, 'I'm working on an audition for a guy who happens to be with an agency.'
PeopleDoingSaidSayAskThey Say
I think it's funny that nobody wants to be liked by Washington. All the politicians go, 'I don't like Washington. They don't like me.' I always find it funny that people are trying to distance themselves from Washington as much as they can, even though they're all in Washington.
FunnyPeopleMeThinkTryingFind
Trump doesn't go a day without worrying me. It seems like every day there's something new.
DayMeEvery DayGoNewWithout
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Maz Jobrani quotes