Kumail Nanjiani

I loved my movies, my video games, and I loved like just the fun of my extended family because I really have a great, great family, like very fun, very like loud, very funny.

Like I was in Toronto doing stand-up and then afterwards a bunch of my family and I went out to a Pakistani restaurant, Karachi restaurant.

So good.

But I was just so proud.

I'm getting emotional.

So proud of how great my family is.

So those are the things I really, really loved.

Hated school.

Never liked it.

Was very good at school.

Got really good grades all the time.

But put a lot of pressure on myself there.

Truly derived no joy from school.

There were moments where I did derive joy from learning.

I really loved learning.

The reason I thought I wanted to be a scientist was...

I remember reading biology and chemistry and when something made sense, it was a very exciting feeling.

And I was like, oh, I feel like I understand.

Like I remember specifically, I don't know how old I was, but reading about the digestive system and it all making sense to me when I was like, I don't know, 12, 13.

That's the other thing.