One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.