Kumail Nanjiani on 'Welcome to Chippendales' and more

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🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Kumail Nanjiani has come a long way since he's joined us over the years. He got his big break as an actor in 2014, when he starred on the hit show Silicon Valley. Kumail played Dinesh. Kumail's the star and co-creator of the Academy Award nominated movie The Big Sick. He's acted on TV shows like Portlandia and Veep, too. Recently, he got buff for a role as a superhero in Marvel's Eternals. And his acting resume just continues to grow. These days, he's starring in the true crime drama Welcome to Chippendales on Hulu. Kumail joins us to talk all about Welcome to Chippendales. Plus, why he got super yolked, what he gets from working out. He also gets into some of his biggest fears about show business.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:14.8	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:22.8	My first guest this week is Kumail Nanjyana.
0:25.9	Kumail is of course a stand of comedian and an actor.
0:30.0	He was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, moved here to the United States at 18 to go
0:35.5	to college.
0:37.1	His career started first as a stand up comic, a great stand up comic.
0:42.2	He got his big break as an actor in 2014 when he was one of the stars of the hit show
0:47.7	Silicon Valley.
0:49.2	He played Dinesh.
0:51.1	When I last talked to Nanjyana, it was 2017.
0:54.4	Alongside his wife Emily Gordon, he just written and directed his first film, The Big
0:58.6	Sick.
0:59.6	It's a beautiful, hilarious, wholly unique romantic comedy and if you haven't seen it,
1:04.1	you should.
1:05.1	Lately, Kumail Nanjyana has been expanding his acting chops.
1:10.3	He joined the cast of Marvel's Eternals in 2021.
1:13.9	Now he's starring in the true crime drama Welcome to Chip and Dales.
1:18.1	The show just wrapped up on Hulu and heads up in case you haven't seen it, you will hear
1:22.3	some very light spoilers in the first 10 minutes or so of this interview.
1:26.8	Welcome to Chip and Dales.
1:28.4	He's about, as you might have guessed, the Chip and Dales dancers, the hunks from the
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