In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'

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.

When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

I was born in India - but never really lived there.