Aasif Mandvi
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I honestly just had this attitude of like, I'm never going to get this.
This is ridiculous.
I'm in the wrong frame of mind.
And John met me, and he said... And I was a little bit surly, because he said to me, he said, have you ever performed in front of a live audience?
And I remember looking at him and just being like, dude, I've been on Broadway.
And...
And I had such, but I just did my best Stephen Colbert impression because that's all I needed to do.
And I was a fan of the show.
And he hired me right there on the spot.
And I was on the show that night.
And I didn't even get a chance to tell anybody.
And suddenly it was just, I was on the show and people were calling me.
We were like, there's a guy.
He's on The Daily Show tonight.
So I didn't even get to tell my family until after it was on.
You know, it's so funny.
Like,
The minute I got The Daily Show, I didn't really care about my ex-girlfriend that much.
I'm going to say that they would just cut into potatoes.
Potatoes.