Aasif Mandvi

Aasif Mandvi: From Boarding School to 'Curry Pot' to New York's Melting Pot

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 21, 2014

Aasif Mandvi talks about his time as a correspondent on “The Daily Show,” his acting career, and writing his new collection of essays. He was born in Bombay, raised in northern England, moved to Florida as a teenager, and lives  in New York. In No Land's Man, his collection of personal essays, Mandvi reveals the many, often contradictory, identities that make up who he is today.

 

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