Kumail Nanjiani

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Birthday:

21 February 1978, Karachi, Pakistan

Height:

174 cm

Kumail Nanjiani was born on February 21, 1978 in Karachi, Pakistan. He is an actor and writer, known for The Big Sick (2017), Central Intelligence (2016) and Silicon Valley (2014). He is married to Emily V. Gordon.

I stay home. It's the best place to be alone. There is hardly any walk-through traffic.

I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-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 f...Show more »

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. Show less «

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 everyon...Show more »

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. Show less «

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

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!' ...Show more »

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. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things. Show less «

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 moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.

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 ...Show more »

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. Show less «

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 w...Show more »

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. Show less «

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.

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 plac...Show more »

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. Show less «

When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.

I'm from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

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 ...Show more »

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. Show less «