Kumail Nanjiani

No.

Which brings me the greatest joy?

It changes day to day.

What I love about stand-up is it's really on you, your mistakes.

It's you and the crowd.

If something doesn't go right, it's completely your fault.

When you're acting and stuff, truly when you're acting and stuff, you're at the mercy of other people.

So you really have to trust the filmmaker that they make you look good.

The actual doing of it, I enjoy acting the most, I would say, because I find it to be challenging.

And it's exciting because the goals are so varied.

Whereas with stand-up, your goal really is to make people laugh, right?

And it's not limited.

There's so much you could do with stand-up.

But with acting, it can be very cathartic.

It can feel like therapy.

Stand-up you can do really well and just have it be outward facing.

With acting, you can't do that.

You have to sort of be inside your own self.

The part of me that's like, if I could kill this guy and get away with it, wouldn't that be great?

I mean, I certainly have a list of people that I'm like, if that person could die and it doesn't come back to me, I would not even consider not doing it.