Ep 238: Kumail Nanjiani

We Might Be Drunk

Sam Morril and Mark Normand

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The great Kumail Nanjiani joins Mark and Sam for a hilarious deep dive into comedy origins, Hollywood madness, and unforgettable bombs. They swap war stories from the NYC and Chicago stand-up scenes, break down the art of the riff, and relive Kumail’s wildest onstage disaster (hint: swastika tattoos don’t land at Holocaust benefits). Plus, Kumail shares how he transformed for Eternals, his love of so-bad-they’re-good movies like Zardoz, and why big burgers are ruining America. This one’s packed with killer bits, movie wrecks, and peeves about bathrooms, plane boarders, and overloaded Bloody Marys. Support the show and start your free online Hims visit today at https://www.hims.com/DRUNK Support the show and get 30% off your first Cornbread Hemp order. Use code DRUNKS at https://www.cornbreadhemp.com/DRUNKS 🎧 Subscribe to We Might Be Drunk: https://bit.ly/SubscribeToWMBD 🛒 Merch: https://wemightbedrunkpod.com/ 🎬 Clips Channel: https://bit.ly/WMBDClips Sam Morril: https://punchup.live/sammorril/tickets Mark Normand: https://punchup.live/marknormand/tickets ⸻ 🎙️ Check out That Sounds Right — the comedy panel show hosted by the producer of WMBD: https://www.youtube.com/@thatsoundsrightshow Produced by Gotham Production Studios: https://www.gothamproductionstudios.com @GothamProductionStudios | Producer: https://www.instagram.com/mrmatthewpeters #WeMightBeDrunk #KumailNanjiani #MarkNormand #SamMorril #ComedyPodcast #StandUpComedy #BodegaCatWhiskey #Hims #CornbreadHemp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, we might be drunk.
0:07.3	We're here with Kumail Nanjiani, my old pal back to New York.
0:10.7	Old buddies, my God.
0:12.5	We did open mics together in New York, 2007.
0:15.6	We did every alt room from here to Queens, Long Island City, to Manhattan to Brooklyn.
0:21.7	The day I moved to New York, I brought my truck, me and Emily, with a car hitched behind us.
0:28.1	And then, you know, they wouldn't go over the brakes.
0:29.7	So she took the car.
0:30.8	I had to figure out how to do it.
0:32.8	Nightmare, I got there.
0:34.7	Friends helped me move in.
0:36.3	That night, I went to Kingdom of Heaven.
0:38.4	Wow.
0:39.6	That night, I'm like, I cannot believe Emily let me fucking do that.
0:43.5	It's an open mic that John Ferdonnell used to run.
0:46.3	At the Creek in the Cave.
0:47.2	The Creek in the Cave in Queens.
0:49.0	Yeah, and it would be Sean Patton, Jesse Pop.
0:51.0	That's where I met all these guys.
0:52.3	I met all you guys my first day in New York.
0:55.1	Wow.
0:55.6	That whole like New Orleans crew, you know, like Cassidy and Chesley and everybody.
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