Aasif Mandvi

Aasif Hakim Mandviwala known professionally as Aasif Mandvi is a BritishAmerican actor comedian and author He made his television debut as a doorman at the Miami Biltmore Hotel in the episode Line of Fire of the series Miami Vice In 2006 Mandvi auditioned for The Daily Show He was hired immediately and appeared on the show the same day He began appearing as an occasional contributing correspondent on The Daily Show on August 9 2006 On March 12 2007 he was promoted to a regular correspondent In October 2013 during a segment on The Daily Show his interview with Don Yelton led to Yeltons resignation from the North Carolina Republican Party office In 2013 he was cast in a recurring role on the FOX romantic comedy Us Them Beginning in June 2015 he portrayed Rafiq Massoud in the HBO comedy series The Brink He also served as a writer and coproducer on the series Also in 2015 he was the lead actor cowriter and producer of the web series Halal in the Family which premiered on Funny or Die In 2016 he joined the climate change documentary show Years of Living Dangerously as one of its celebrity correspondents Beginning in 2017 he had a short recurring role on Netflixs  A Series of Unfortunate Events as Montgomery Uncle Monty Montgomery a herpetologist and distant relative of the Baudelaire children In 2019 he starred in CBS supernatural drama series Evil as Ben Shakir a carpenter who works as a technical expert equipment handler and debunker of supernatural phenomena His other recurring roles include Oz CSI Tanner on Tanner The Bedford Diaries Jericho Blue Bloods Younger and This Way Up He hosted the game show Would I Lie to You 2022 He played minor roles in the films The Siege and Die Hard with a Vengeance He played the doctor who diagnosed Paul Vittis Robert De Niro panic attacks in Analyze This and had a role as Mr Aziz of Joes Pizza in SpiderMan 2 He played the tone deaf doorman Khan in Music and Lyrics a dentist alongside Ricky Gervais in Ghost Town Bob Spaulding in The Proposal and appeared in Its Kind of a Funny Story In M Night Shyamalans The Last Airbender released in 2010 he played a major role as Commander Zhao He played the role of Mr Chetty in The Internship and Ash Vasudevan in Million Dollar Arm He has appeared in other films including Random Hearts Margin Call Dark Horse The Dictator Ruby Sparks Premium Rush Movie 43 Mothers Day Drunk Parents and more