Kumail Nanjiani
Kumail Nanjiani
Kumail Nanjianiis a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian, actor and podcast host. Nanjiani is best known for his role as a main cast member on every season of HBO's Emmy Award-nominated series Silicon Valley, as well as for providing the voice of Prismo on the Emmy Award-winning animated series Adventure Time. In addition he's starred on the TNT series Franklin & Bash and the Adult Swim series Newsreaders. He also co-hosts the Comedy Central show The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail. In...
NationalityPakistani
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth21 February 1978
CityKarachi, Pakistan
CountryPakistan
I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.
When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.
The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.
I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.
When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.
If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.
You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is going to love you. And for some reason, stand-up has this thing where everyone thinks they can do it. So everyone thinks they're an expert.
Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.
I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.
I stay home. It's the best place to be alone. There is hardly any walk-through traffic.
Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.
Honestly, I would love to be friends with Fox Mulder on 'The X-Files.' That's almost a little too obvious, but that would be my answer. I'd love to hang out with him.