“The longer I spent time on The Daily Show, standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world—most often from somewhere in the Middle East—the more I began to realize that The Daily Show was radicalizing me. I was being allowed to express the outrage that had lain dormant in me since the aftermath of September 11. I was becoming a terrorist of comedy … I was learning to fire missiles of satire across the basic cable airwaves and blow the minds of a million people.”
- Aasif Mandvi looks back on getting hired on The Daily Show and his “Courage in Media” award in an excerpt from his new memoir No Land’s Man due out November 4th.
