“The longer I spent time on The Daily Show, standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world—most often from somewhere in the Middle East—the more I began to realize that The Daily Show was radicalizing me. I was being allowed to express the outrage that had lain dormant in me since the aftermath of September 11. I was becoming a terrorist of comedy … I was learning to fire missiles of satire across the basic cable airwaves and blow the minds of a million people.â€
- Aasif Mandvi looks back on getting hired on The Daily Show and his “Courage in Media†award in an excerpt from his new memoir No Land’s Man due out November 4th.