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How Aasif Mandvi Became Jon Stewart’s Favorite Jihadi

Imam of Comedy?

Aasif Mandvi talks about being the ‘all-things brown correspondent’ on The Daily Show and no longer having to play ‘Terrorist No. 4’ in films.

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Jon Stewart is known to be many things. He’s been an award-winning TV host, a critic of the media, a political comedian, and now he’s a movie director with the release this weekend of the film Rosewater, which tells the story of journalist Maziar Bahari, who was imprisoned and tortured...

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