Kumail Nanjiani and Ray Romano

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Kumail Nanjiani has parlayed his success as a stand-up comic into an acting career, notably on Silicon Valley. Now he and his wife Emily have written a movie that was the runaway hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, The Big Sick. Everybody knows (and loves) Ray Romano, who plays the father of Kumail’s girlfriend. Leonard and Jessie ask the two comedians to compare their experiences in the standup world and learn how they made the transition to acting…but it’s clear that being funny comes naturally to both of them.

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0:00.0	Now Entering Nerdist.com.
0:13.0	Hi, I'm Leonard Martin.
0:14.7	And I'm Jesse Malton.
0:14.7	And you're listening to Malton on movies.
0:16.6	And we have two guests today.
0:18.6	Two, count them.
0:19.8	We have Kumil Nanjani, who is no stranger to meltdown comics, which is where we're
0:25.2	recording right now.
0:26.7	And we have Mani, the Woolly Mammoth.
0:28.8	Oh, no, we have Ray Romano.
0:31.3	And Ray and Kumal are appearing together in a wonderful new movie called The Big Sick, which we want to tout shamelessly
0:40.5	and pointedly because we both enjoyed it so much.
0:44.1	So much.
0:45.2	This is a trip for me because I used to come every single week and watch you do Meltdown.
0:51.8	I'm doing the Nerd Meltdown in the back room here at Meltdown Comics every single week.
0:58.1	So this is not where you usually do the pot.
1:00.3	Wow.
1:00.6	No, this is where we are.
1:03.6	But you used to come to the show.
1:05.3	That's great.
1:05.6	Every week.
1:06.2	When we met you, you told us she wasn't there when I first met you at South Place.
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