Kumail Nanjiani

I was doing stand-up a lot, and we met at a show, yeah.

Yeah, so going back to do that, I got very emotional immediately when I came out on stage.

And I had not expected that, and it's not something that I wanted to do.

It just sort of happened.

And to me, it was a good sign.

It meant that I was situated enough in that moment to really feel it.

And then we talked a lot about whether or not to put that little moment in the special.

And we tried it without it, but I was like, it sort of speaks to what the special is about anyway.

And so we decided to leave it in.

Truly, all of it.

I mean, I truly cannot... It's hard to grasp.

If I'd gone back to myself at any point, even in my 20s, to be like, this is what I would get to do, I would not believe it.

Especially because as a kid, I was very shy.

I was very, very quiet.

Very reserved, so it's very shocking to people that I do this.

People who've known me, now my parents have accepted it, but if you ask them, they'd be like, he's the last person we knew that we would expect to be doing this.

There's a lot of luck involved, right place, right time kind of things.

A lot of people have sort of helped me and put their reputation on the line to give me chances, and I really appreciate that.

I mean, none of it really makes sense.

If there are parallel universes, this is the only one where I'm doing it.