.kumailn discussed his time in stand-up and his years away from it on the latest episode of GoodOnePodcast, recorded live at this year's VultureFestival
, Nanjiani discussed his time in stand-up and his years away from it. Read some excerpts from the interview, below, or listen to the full episode ofWe are going to play a clip of some of Kumail’s material. It’s from his 2013 stand-up special,. And then afterward, we’re going to talk about that and things related to that. That’s what’ll happen.When’s the last time you watched that?] I think that guy’s going places! I like those jokes. That was nine years ago. I haven’t done a special since then.
I remember the night I was doing stand-up onstage at a place called the Lincoln Lodge, which is where I met Emily, the woman I married. Weird way to say “wife.” I was onstage and I’d just seen an episode ofShit, I think I have something funny to say about thatOkay, I have to change myself onstage so that I can talk about whatever I want to talk aboutAround the time you were working on this special in 2012, you appeared on a live episode ofwith Judd Apatow at SXSW.
The joke came from me, Emily, and Judd. I don’t remember who else was there. This was before the movie was greenlit. I mean, it didn’t get greenlit until right before we started shooting. But Judd kept saying, “It has to be constant conflict and super-fucking weird the entire time. Like, these people should not be together in this situation, and yet they are.” For instance, he was like, “Maybe her dad can ask you how you feel about 9/11.” And I remember I just said to Judd, “It was a tragedy.
It felt like this movie coming out changed something, in that you took this very personal story that was about your experience, and when it was received, it became about a lot of people’s experiences.
I don’t know how it has affected how I do my work going forward. I don’t think you can anticipate any kind of reaction from people. I think all you can do is make something that you can be proud of. That’s really as far as you can think. I think that’s part of the problem with Hollywood: People try and guess what people want, and there’s no way to know that.
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