Asif Mandvi

Sacha Baron Cohen's new role as a fictional Middle Eastern tyrant in his movie "The Dictator" is causing plenty of controversy. Commentators like Dean Obeidallah have criticized the actor, who is not of Middle Eastern descent, for portraying an Arab man, especially since the character is intended to reflect stereotypes. Actor and comedian Aasif Mandvi [...]  

"So I think this upsets a lot of ethnic people, ethnic actors because this is something that is perpetuated by hollywood in this idea that white is the norm and if you want to identify with the hero, identify with the person on the screen, he or ...  

Sacha Baron Cohen's new role as a fictional Middle Eastern tyrant in his movie "The Dictator" is causing plenty of controversy. Commentators like Dean Obeidallah have criticized the actor, who is not of Middle Eastern descent, for portraying an ...  

Tuesday afternoon, senior political writer Steve Kornacki joined a panel to discuss Rick Santorum’s begrudged “endorsement” of Mitt Romney for president in 2012, arguing that as time goes on, it’s “less and less an issue of Romney ...  

Early in his career, he won an Obie award for his one-man show, Sakina’s Restaurant, which he later adapted to the screen as Today’s Special, a 2010 film about a young sous chef who abandons his dreams of cooking French cuisine to take over his father ...  

The Last Airbender (2010). Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy. Country: USA (English). Director: M. Night Shyamalan. Cast: Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Toub, Aasif Mandvi, ... Plot: The world is ...  

Despite having a track record of championing liberal causes, according to comedian Aasif Mandvi, Hollywood “whitewashes” it’s leading characters and it’s downright blatant. Mandvi, who penned an op-ed for Salon.com on the issue, ...  

The correspondent for the Comedy Central political satire show spoke to THR at the pre-White House Correspondents Association dinner on Friday. Aasif Mandvi was being kind on Friday night; as one of the top political and social satirists on television ...  

When I first heard the title of the movie Today’s Special, I thought about that kids’ show from the 90s where the mannequins in a store came to life and hung out at night. Sadly, the movie is actually about Indian food. One that starred comedian and ...  

The Last Airbender Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicole Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Aasif Mandvi The Last Airbender official movie trailer provided by Paramount Pictures. The Last Airbender opens in US theaters on July 2nd, ...  

We used food as a metaphor for this man’s journey of finding ... At first I said no, I thought they wanted me to do a weird sketch where I wear a turban and fly around on a carpet or something,” he recalled. But after some cajoling, he ...  

The Last Airbender clip is provided by Paramount Pictures. The Last Airbender opens on July 2, 2010 and stars Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Toub, Aasif Mandvi and Cliff Curtis. The Last ...  

The actor, comedian and Daily Show correspondent on everything from peanut butter to why Indian American women don't love him.