Kumail Nanjiani

She has to ask permission.

She's like, hey, can we talk about work for a second?

We stick to that.

We've had that rule forever.

We don't talk about work in bed at all.

That kind of stuff is very important.

For me, the excitement of it is, I think she's a phenomenal writer and I'm the first person in the world that gets to look inside her brain.

I'll read pages and I'm like, you just sat there and you wrote this?

This came out of you?

When you were there, when I saw you, this is what you were working on?

It's such a privilege.

But it's still challenging because writing is such a personal thing and it can be if she's like, hey, I don't like this.

Vulnerable, intimate, super intimate.

Feelings get hurt.

And again, for me, I have to say like my feelings are hurt about it.

A lot of things happen at the same time when someone heckles you for that.

One, there is at its core a safety net where you understand it's not about me, it's about them.

It's their fault.

They're not really... If someone's really like heckling me in a personal way or they see inside my soul and they're heckling me, that's genuinely hurtful.

This, I understand perfectly.