I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.
Kumail NanjianiMy 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.
Kumail NanjianiI would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
Kumail NanjianiI approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.
Kumail Nanjiani