My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.
I do have very solid reggae roots based on the fact that I'm Jamaican, and so that is a part of myself; even if I never do all reggae, it has to come out in some way because that's who I am.
I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.
People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life.
I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.
I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.
My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.
I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.
My family is from Morocco, and I was born and raised in Canada, but I'm an Indian at heart, for sure.
Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.
I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish.
My real name is Joseph Herbert. My dad is white; my mom's Asian, Filipino. And when I started stand-up 22 years ago, I used to go up as Joseph Herbert, and I would just have to defend my name. Every time I went onstage, it was so annoying. People would heckle.
Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
Since I am originally from Hyderabad, I speak Telugu fluently.
I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.
I was Jewish, through and through, although in our house that didn't mean a whole lot. We never went to synagogue. I never had a Bar Mitzvah. We didn't keep kosher or observe the Sabbath. In fact, I'm not so sure I would have known what the Sabbath looked like if it passed me on the street, so how could I observe it?
I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did.
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs.
I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture.
I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.
What it depends on is someone's upbringing and the traditions and that is how you decide if you are Jewish or not.
