Kumail Nanjiani

I have never connected that.

I'm not sure.

I don't know how much of it comes from how I was raised or whatever.

I just have always been a huge fan of movies and TV, big fan of pop culture.

And I don't know when it happened, but

my entire life, as far as I can remember, I've always valued people revealing themselves through art.

It's always been something that I've really connected to.

So like, you know, I,

I just did Conan O'Brien's podcast and I was telling him this.

When I was a little, little kid, I liked silly stuff, but I really liked stuff that showed me who someone was, or got at some sort of truth about something.

I really always loved, like I fell in love with Bruce Springsteen.

And to me, his music is intensely personal, even though he's not, he's never been a blue collar.

Yeah, and he admits that, you know.

He talks about that.

Well, yeah, his one-man show on Broadway, which I watched, was phenomenal.

He talks about that.

He's like, I've been a fraud.

Yeah.

But very empathetic, right?

And getting at, presumably, at least what I perceive as some kind of truth about being a human being in this reality.