- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I exist in this hyphen. I'm an Indian-American-Muslim kid, but am I more Indian, or am I more American? What part of my identity am I?
- Biggest Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the biggest things immigrant kids oftentimes feel is this big disparity between our parents and us. And our parents are staunch pragmatists, and I consider myself to be an optimist.
- Debate
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I didn't know what comedy was, but I was involved in speech and debate and public speaking.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite comedians are just presenting an argument, and they're doing it in a funny way.
- Stand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nuanced debate can't stand up to a guy who's calling women pigs and retweeting white supremacists.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda 'eh,' and then somehow, someway, 10 percent of it happens to work out really great in my act.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned to start from a really sound argument, boil down the essence of what you're trying to say, then build your humor around that, rather than starting with, 'This sounds funny,' and going from there.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I found very interesting about comedians around the world was their knowledge of stuff outside of their own culture and comfort zone. That's not very common in the States. We produce our own soft power, which is pop culture, but we rarely try to absorb and learn information from other cultures and countries.
- Booming
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want a great replacement, like, who can follow Barack and still have that swag, that charisma, that charm and be historic - I think it would be Tina Fey for president.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, 'Man - I am American.'
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aditi is a comedy superstar over in India. She's only one of three female English-speaking comedians in India.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movies 'Dope' and 'Straight Outta Compton' blew me away. I love seeing directors and writers of color make amazing slices of pop culture.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020