Kumail Nanjiani

She's like, coming from someone who looks like you now, who sort of in some ways represents physically a type of man that, again, hard for me to say, people do aspire to in terms of physical form.

Like, I understand now that people look at me and some men are like,

I would like to look like that only because they say it to me all the goddamn time.

She said, looking the way you do now, it is valuable to have you saying certain things.

If you're a nerd on stage and you look nerdy and you're talking about, like, it's important to be vulnerable, that's not as perhaps impactful as me being muscly on stage and talking about the importance of being valuable and the importance of...

talking about that certain kind of masculinity and what its strengths and its weaknesses.

So all that, my hour-long special now is what it is because I wanted to be vulnerable on stage, especially because I look different now.

Yeah, and I'm in the next season of Fallout.

So Fallout Season 2, which is out right now or coming out soon.

I'm in a couple episodes.

I love that show.

Let's do it.

I very much enjoyed this conversation.

Thank you.

My new stand-up special Night Thoughts is now streaming on Hulu.

I promise you're gonna laugh.

I am an immigrant.

I am.

Are there any other immigrants here?

Okay, what you can't do is point at someone else.