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 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!
You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. Its specific hours set aside every day for certain things.
I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.
I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.
The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.
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.
We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.
I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.