Pakistani - Comedian | February 21, 1978 -
I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
Kumail Nanjiani
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I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.
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I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.
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'Four Weddings and a Funeral' is one of my favorite movies, and I laugh all the time, and I cry during the one funeral. But I'll say that 'Monsters, Inc.' is a movie that really gets me super-emotional. Especially the ending.
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I thought, from watching TV and stuff, that America was one place. They only show you L.A. and New York. They don't warn you about Iowa.
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I want to be so famous that I'm the pop-culture reference that people would make to try and be racist to me. So I'd be walking down the street, and someone would be, like, 'Hey, look at this Kumail Nanjiani.'
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I've always played some version of a nerdy guy or something like that. I mean, one of my story lines on 'Silicon Valley' is that I am very bad with women!
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Rom-coms have been one of my favorite genres of movies since I can remember. My favorite movie of all-time is 'Four Weddings and a Funeral,' and then 'When Harry Met Sally,' and 'Annie Hall' is top five.
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I just hope that there's a market for somebody who looks like me as the lead of a rom-com, you know?
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I'm a massive rom-com head! Like, every rom-com in the '90s and early 2000s, I've watched.
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Because of the Internet, you're sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It's a great challenge of our time, and depending on when you ask me, I feel optimistic or pessimistic about it.
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I always felt that it was never the duty of a person to really stand up for their gender or their race or anything like that - I always felt that was a personal choice. But I do feel now that maybe my opinion is evolving or changing a little bit.
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