- Last year, I played Horatio in Hamlet

at the public theater opposite Oscar Issac.

(audience cheers and applauds)

It was a dream come true.

It was like coming home

and a brand new dream come true at the same time

and I just want to be able to do more of that.

- That's amazing.

Speaking of dreams coming true,

my dream was to be in "The Lion King" and I'm not.

(Keegan and audience laughs)

And I see that you are,

you are going to be in "The Lion King."

- Oh, this one, oh, I am!

I am gonna be in "The Lion King."

- You're gonna be in "The Lion King."

How the (bleep) did that happen?

(audience laughs)

- Can I just say this for a second?

Those cards felt really comfortable in my hands.

- You know, many people, in fact,

tried to reduce you to just, you know, your fact,

so they went, oh you're getting successful

just because you're Asian, just because you're a woman,

just because you're pregnant.

- There was a guy, who, I won't name names,

he's not a very successful comedian,

so I don't even know if you would know who he was.

- [Trevor] No, I don't.

- You wouldn't know.

You're outta there now.

But he came up to me

while I was pregnant the second time

and he touched my belly with his fat, sweaty hand,

which is so gross to begin with.

It's like why don't you finger me while you're at it?

This is so not okay.

Just because I'm pregnant,

doesn't mean it's okay for you to touch my belly.

And he was like, oh, so this is your shtick,

this is your thing, now, right?

And I was like,

getting pregnant is not rainbow suspenders.

It's not a shtick and then he was like,

"You're so lucky, Ali, because you get all of this attention

"'cause you're both a female and a minority."

And I was like, "Yeah, 'cause you know,

"historically that's always been the winning combo

"for recognition and success."

(audience laughs and applauds)

And he was like, "You know what I mean,

"like me, I'm just another white guy."

And I was like, "Be a better white guy."

- Is there anything else you wanna tell us about?

'Cause I just like chatting to you.

- Oh, I actually did wanna say

that I hope that the fact that

Between The Scenes has become like a whole (beep) thing

is something that you're happy about

and not like, I've gotta do bonus interviews now,

because Anna one time came after

in Between The Scenes and now it's like a whole thing.

- No, no, but you're the only person

who refused to listen to me when I said--

- It's not a thing?

- Between The Scenes is not a thing.

- But now it's a thing, so you're welcome.

- Yes.

(audience laughs and applauds)

Thank you, Anna.

- But I hope that's okay and not just more work for you.

- No, no, it's fine.

- I can tell in your eyes that you kind of hate it.

- No, these are happy eyes.

These are happy eyes.

These are eyes that enjoy doing more work,

that's what these eyes are.

- No, never, no, no, no!

- Congratulations on another season of Grey's Anatomy.

The show's been going, how many seasons has it been, now?

- We just finished 15.

- 15 seasons. (audience cheers and applauds)

- You've been doing it for so long

that I feel like you should have an honorary degree.

- I could be a fully credited surgeon by now.

- Do you think you know enough fake medicine

to do real medicine?

- I could slow your death.

(audience and Trevor laughs)

I could buy you a few extra minutes.

But, you know what's funny is that like,

and I think I've said this before,

I've definitely had at least two instances on a plane

where somebody has gone, is there a doctor on the plane,

and then the flight attendant looks directly at me,

and it's like, lady, the one thing you know about me,

I'm like anybody else on this flight,

the one thing you know about me is I'm not a doctor.

(audience laughs)

But it's like, you, you, no, no, please don't.

Fine, all right, just go through the motions,

I don't know what, this is how bad of a doctor I am,

I don't know. - Is that how you do?

- I'm just stretching is what I'm doing.

- That's your CPR?

- This is like a little cabbage patch or something, yeah.

- That was a very sexy CPR.

(audience laughs)

That was like, yo, I know you're not coming back to life,

but you're going out happy.

- I brought you a little present.

- You brought me a present? - Yes.

So I introduced a term.

- Oh, you brought me a little bag, I love bags!

I got a bag, I love bags! - A little gift bag.

She always leaves a party giving people gift bags.

So back when we checked in in the dressing room

I taught you a term, the term is gender (bleep).

- All right, I've never heard of that before.

- Yeah, and it's not what it sounds like,

it's like playing with your gender

and having a damn good time.

And so I brought you some clip on earrings.

- Oh wow.

- Because I figured you could use.

- So I get to wear these? - Yeah, so you see this is--

- You know what kills me with clip-ons all the time

is they give me headaches.

But these one's aren't tight, I promise.

- Are you sure? - They're good ones.

- 'Cause a lot of the times they'll give you headaches.

- No, they're gentle! (audience cheers and applauds)

Look at that, wow!

Trevor, this is, I mean like,

I don't wanna be your stylist right now

and I don't wanna like, you know, but I just,

this is a look, you realize this is a look, right?

- You know what's interesting for me,

to your ideas of gender and how we identify it

and what signifies gender around the world

is in South Africa and many African cultures

men will wear earrings like this and to your point,

it doesn't, like no one would be like,

oh, that man is not man or is, do you get what I'm saying?

- Yeah. - It's funny,

'cause like this I'm like, oh, I look traditional right now.

(audience laughs) - Yes!

- Like that's what I'm thinking right now.

Like if my grandmother saw she'd be like,

"Finally, he's connecting with his roots!"

Do you ever get bored of people

asking you to freestyle in real life?

'Cause let's be honest, you have become the hip hop guy

and now you have the freestyle show

and it's like so it's freestyle and it's hip hop

so I feel like everywhere you go people are just like,

"Oh my god, Lin, how are you?"

♪ It's a coffee mug, a boo boo chee, a boo boo chee ♪

♪ A boo boo chee, a boo boo chee ♪

♪ I love coffee and I wanna say ♪

♪ You drink it every day, come on, Lin ♪

Be honest with me, how many people do that to you?

- Well, only reporters.

(audience laughs and applauds)

My new thing that I've done,

and you could probably do an amazing super cut on this

'cause you guys are wizards at that is like,

my new things is I say, I will freestyle if you beatbox.

So you could do a super cut of reporters beatboxing

just to get me to freestyle and it's a lot of like

little white ladies being like (beatboxing).

(audience laughs)

- You are a Palestinian Kuwaiti Muslim

traveling the world with no passport and you were like,

"Yeah, I wanna try to do this in more countries."

- Yeah. (laughs)

Well, I'm born to Palestinian parents.

- How many times did you get stopped?

- Every time, no, it was every time

to the point to when I became a citizen

and I was reentering America

and he was like, "Okay, go ahead."

And I was like, "No, are you sure?

"I think there's another... (audience laughs)

"There's something else that needs to happen here.

"I feel awkward, can we just talk for a little while?"

(audience laughs)

I'm serious, they did.

I was like, "What's goin' on?"

I was like, "No, we need to chat a little bit."

Like Japan was my favorite interrogation I ever had,

it was just an hour of them

trying to figure out what I did for a living.

The entire hour, for real, consisted of,

"So, what is your occupation?"

I was like, "Oh, I'm a comedian."

He's, like "Comedian?"

I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, I do stand up comedy."

"Stand up comedy?"

I'm like, "Yeah, I'm a... (audience laughs)

"I do comedy", "Comedy?"

"Yeah, I do, I'm a comedian", "Comedian?"

I'm like, am I bein' roasted right now, what's happening?

(audience laughs)

Finally his buddy walks in, his partner, he's like,

(speaking in foreign language) comedian.

And he goes, "Oh yeah, he's like Bill Cosby."

(audience groans)

And that's what got me off was Bill Cosby.

I mean, not literally, not literally.

(audience laughs and applauds)

- A lot of people who are refugees

or maybe came to the US as immigrants

had this connection with Trump where they were worried.

You had a different connection with Trump

which is one of the reasons you came into prominence,

really insane story where you found yourself on a plane

seated next to Eric Trump.

- That's, yeah.

You know, bein' a frequent flyer helps sometimes.

I didn't know this was gonna happen,

like I was upgrading to first class

and I ended up sitting next to Eric Trump.

I didn't even know I was gonna get upgraded

'cause I put my name on the list way to late,

you know, comedians are, you know,

the best procrastinators in the business

and I didn't know I was gonna get upgraded

much less sit next to Eric, but I do know one thing,

the lady that upgraded me is probably a Clinton supporter,

you know, let's be real.

She was probably sittin' there like,

"Oh, Eric Trump is on my flight, okay, uh huh, uh huh."

I don't know why she has a mustache but okay, mm-hmm.

(audience laughs)

"Oh, there's an empty seat next to Eric?

"Let me take a look at this upgrade list,

"see who's standing by patiently here.

"Oh, Mohammed Mustafa Amer, upgrade!"

(audience laughs and applauds)

- I often wonder how much normalcy

there still is in your life?

Like, how many normal random things happen to you.

Like, when was the last time

your phone ran out of battery while you were speaking?

Has that ever happened to you?

- No. - Okay.

(audience laughs)

So for instance, have there ever been a moment where

you're in the bathroom and then the toilet roll is done, no?