As the senior Muslim correspondent on Jon Stewart's "Daily Show," actor Aasif Mandvi parodied some of the media's most absurd notions about Islam, the Middle East and essentially any brown culture that qualified as "foreign."
While "reporting" on a puzzling amendment in Alabama to ban sharia law, he said: "Anyone could see how easily we could go from Alabama to Al-habama."
The India-born, America-raised Mandvi is yet again mining material in the ignorance between East and West, this time with HBO's new comedy drama series "The Brink." The series, which debuted last week to mixed reviews, opened to solid ratings.