Kumail Nanjiani

I didn't grow up loving sketch comedy.

A lot of my friends are very, very good at it.

Not at all.

I mean, to me, watching movies and TV shows, I was like, oh, these are made by gods far away.

It's not something that people can make.

I have friends like, you know, like Nick Kroll, who I think is one of the funniest people in the world.

He was doing little sketches and skits in his summer camp.

And I've seen like pictures of it.

And so he's known for a long time.

And a lot of my friends have known since they were kids, like this is what I want to do.

I did not think that that was a possibility in any way.

And even so now, it's sort of been like slowly the, I'm going to misuse this analogy, the frog boiling in water thing.

There was never a moment where I was like, and now I want to go act in movies.

It was all like tiny steps that just sort of led to this.

So I started doing standup.

That was the first thing that I jumped into that I was like, I need to do this.

I don't know how not to do this.

I don't know how to do it, but I don't know how not to do it.

And the only thing that hurt more than getting on stage was not getting on stage.

And from that, it's all been like tiny little steps leading to this.