Aasif Mandvi News

It took 10 years - and 9/11 - for Ayad Akhtar to realise what he needed to write about.

Playwright Ayad Akhtar has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Disgraced , his first work for the stage to receive a New York production.

Aasif Mandvi is best known as the "Senior Muslim Correspondent" on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , but as Charles Isherwood of The New York Times recently remarked, "Those who know this talented performer only from his perky mock-commentaries on The Daily Show may be surprised to discover what a skilled stage actor he is." Tonight, February 26 at ... (more)

Aasif Mandvi is best known as the "Senior Muslim Correspondent" on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , but as Charles Isherwood of The New York Times recently remarked, "Those who know this talented performer only from his perky mock-commentaries on The Daily Show may be surprised to discover what a skilled stage actor he is." On Tuesday, February 26 ... (more)

Party Down 's Ken Marino has been tapped to star, while The Last Airbender 's Aasif Mandvi has also joined the cast of the British adaptation, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.