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Funny and sad are two sides of the same coin. I think that most comedians are able to tap into deep subject matter.Collection: Hasan
I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, 'This is what it is. This is unfair; that's not cool.'Collection: Hasan
I think the way comedy is represented on screen is it's either all fart jokes - and it's just laughter for the sake of laughter - or it's one of those things where it's just kind of very preachy, very heavy-handed.Collection: Hasan
I feel like we have so much to add to this book called the American Dream, and I want to add our chapter to it. I want to talk about what it means to be brown American and this concept of what I feel is the New Brown America.Collection: Hasan
'Stand-Up Planet' was Anthony Bourdain-meets-stand-up comedy.Collection: Hasan
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.Collection: Hasan
Donald Trump is white ISIS - WISIS.Collection: Hasan
I'd rather be an angry optimist than an angry nihilist.Collection: Hasan
Comedy is very disarming. It's a way to talk about things and still be light-hearted. And when it's done really well, you never see the strings, whereas when you watch an infomercial or a politician speaking, a lot of times you can see the strings, you can see what agenda they're trying to push.Collection: Hasan
If you and I believe two different things, I can attack you verbally all day, but if I can make you laugh and show you the absurdity of your argument, it will lower you guard. People let you in then.Collection: Hasan
Everybody's past and history informs them.Collection: Hasan
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.Collection: Hasan
America's unique ability to change and be super flexible is pretty dope, man. It's pretty incredible. And that's what I want to contribute to.Collection: Hasan
There are definitely some set topics I go onstage with and want to talk about, but there's also an element of improvisation and spontaneity that I like to bring to each performance and talk about uniquely in that room.Collection: Hasan
Bananas are my go-to breakfast.Collection: Hasan
I wanted to be Atticus Finch.Collection: Hasan
I went to college during the Kazaa/Napster era, and we had free Internet, which was a huge deal. People were just downloading all of everything.Collection: Hasan
The story that I'm telling in 'Homecoming King' about falling in love, these are things that happened to me - that actually happen every day in our backyards and in our communities.Collection: Hasan
On 'The Daily Show,' we get so caught up in the day-to-day news cycle. A story breaks, and then the piranhas in late night, we all jump to the headline, and we dissect it, and then we have to move on to the next day.Collection: Hasan
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?Collection: Hasan
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.Collection: Hasan
In high school, I didn't know what comedy was, but I was involved in speech and debate and public speaking.Collection: Hasan
My favorite comedians are just presenting an argument, and they're doing it in a funny way.Collection: Hasan
I had been cut from the basketball team every year. But I was like, 'I can turn it around! Michael Jordan made it!' You see it a lot of times - you'll have an athlete that you love, and then they'll be like, 'I also want to rap,' and you're like, 'Don't do that.' I was that kid.Collection: Hasan
What I love about comedy is that we're this group of weirdos, and the only language that matters is, 'Are you funny?' And it really is this oddly cool American idea where comedy's the marketplace of ideas. May the best idea win.Collection: Hasan
I think perspective is a necessary, amazing thing.Collection: Hasan
Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.Collection: Hasan
Jokes for jokes' sake are kind of meaningless to me. I understand the value of them, but it doesn't speak to me as much. You can lace your argument with jokes, but tell me why you're presenting this argument. What does it mean?Collection: Hasan
My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told.Collection: Hasan
As satirists, we get to stand on the sidelines of life and comment on what's happening.Collection: Hasan
I just hope that people get a variety of news sources to keep themselves informed.Collection: Hasan
The 'Homecoming King' show started off as a storytelling show that I had done; I worked with Greg Walloch to develop it and build it into something bigger.Collection: Hasan
I grew up in a pretty strict household in the sense that we just didn't have cable, so I wasn't familiar with what stand-up comedy was. I remember telling my friends that I thought stand-up comedy was like the thing that happened before the episode of 'Seinfeld.'Collection: Hasan
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.Collection: Hasan
I just hope I reach out to people and connect to people in such a way that they continue to support what I do.Collection: Hasan
We shouldn't get lost in the bombastic tweets of Trump. He provides such great fodder every day. You don't want to lose sight of the other stuff that's going on that's even more important.Collection: Hasan
Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.Collection: Hasan
I call my style Classic Americana Swag. I do my vibe, and I'll throw in a cool sneaker here or there, a pair of Js.Collection: Hasan
A lot of times, especially when it comes to political debates, people get caught up in esoteric statistics. So the realest thing I can do that has nothing to do with numbers is tell you my personal experience.Collection: Hasan
I like to have straight-up black coffee, but when you get it, sometimes you'll burn your tongue, or it spills on your hands, and you get third degree burns. I happen to be the kind of human being who doesn't want to sue coffee companies for money, so I just say, 'Hey, can you give me some coffee, but can you also give me like, eight ice cubes.'Collection: Hasan
When you grow up as a minority in a majority culture, a lot of times, you're just trying to fit in.Collection: Hasan
I think there are people from every side who are allies for justice and good.Collection: Hasan
Trump is inadvertently forcing us to show him how great this country truly is - that we are better together than we are divided.Collection: Hasan
This first-generation narrative keeps happening over and over and over again, whether it was Irish or Jewish or our community, South Asians, Japanese-Americans, Mexican-Americans. We've all gone through this sort of bridge, and it will continue to happen.Collection: Hasan
'Vice News' is cool because they'll just send your local barista to go talk to the head of ISIS.Collection: Hasan
When you immerse yourself in a community, you tend to rise in that community.Collection: Hasan
I've experienced Islamophobic stuff. But I don't care - you can say whatever you want to say about me, but I am who I am. I think that what I'm trying to fight for and what I'm performing for is bigger than any religion, race, creed, or class.Collection: Hasan
In California, you can stretch your arms out and not be touching another person. You get space, sun and, in general, dignity.Collection: Hasan
As a single guy, the baseline of what I needed was so low. I just needed an air mattress, food, and rent money.Collection: Hasan
Beena and I didn't move in together until we got married.Collection: Hasan