VIDEO : Aasif Mandvi On Bigotry, Satire, And Growing Up An Immigrant In America

Aasif Mandvi, a Daily Show correspondent who has also appeared in movies like Million Dollar Arm and Today's Special , recently visited the the BuzzFeed offices to talk anti-Muslim bias in America. This year, he successfully crowdsourced "Halal in the Family," a sitcom satire based around an American Muslim family, and premiered it on Funny or Die. Mandvi said, "When I was a kid, most Americans didn?t know what a Muslim was. They thought Muslim was a type of cloth. Now, Americans know what Muslims are and they?re very afraid of Muslims. And they?re also afraid of muslin, which is a weird thing." And, "Things have changed for the worse for America and for Muslims. But it's better for comedians."??