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 approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.
My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process. I write everything out, and then the parts I think are funny I put in bold. Then I go perform it. Then the parts that aren't funny, I unbold them.
I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.
I am a very nerdy guy. I understand that it's easier to cast me as a nerdy guy than an action star - although I would love to be an action star!
I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.
Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.
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.
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.
I stay home. It's the best place to be alone. There is hardly any walk-through traffic.
If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.
When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.
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.