Kumail Nanjiani on World Cups, Hollywood and India-Pakistan Relations
The Grade Cricketer
RARE
4.7 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Kumail Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian, actor,, screenwriter and cricket lover best known for co-writing and starring in the Oscar-nominated film The Big Sick and for his role as Dinesh on HBO’s Silicon Valley. His credits also include major studio projects like Marvel’s Eternals, Stuber, The Lovebirds, and numerous voice roles in animated films and series.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, well, we normally introduce our guests by letting the numbers tell the story. |
| 0:04.5 | But where cricketers have Crick info, Hollywood has something even grander, IMDB. |
| 0:09.8 | So our guest today has a Screen Actors Guild Award, nominations for an Academy Award, |
| 0:15.1 | a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards. |
| 0:17.6 | He's also been listed by Time as one of the most 100 influential people in the world. |
| 0:22.6 | You might know him from Silicon Valley, Portlandia, co-writing and starring in The Big Sick, |
| 0:27.0 | or as a 20-year comedy veteran with his new stand-up special Night Thoughts. He's fresh from |
| 0:32.6 | appearances at the 26th Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor honoring Conan O'Brien, being on Conan's |
| 0:38.9 | pot itself to appearances on Fallon, Colbert, Seth Myers, The View, and now the grade cricketer |
| 0:43.8 | podcast. |
| 0:44.9 | This is the first guy to traverse the Marvel Cinematic Universe and now the Great Cricket |
| 0:49.5 | Cinematic Universe. |
| 0:50.8 | It's the warmest of welcomes to Kamail Nangiani. |
| 0:53.2 | Kamail, welcome to the great cricketer. |
| 0:55.2 | Thank you for having me. So excited to be here. Kamal, I've got to say, over our journey |
| 1:01.3 | where we've had a lot of DMs over about 15 years, some good, mostly not. I think over the 15 |
| 1:10.0 | years, the one we received from you recently was probably the highest dopamine response I've had to a DM. So thanks for sliding in. |
| 1:17.8 | Oh my God, of course. Please don't ever say that to me again. |
| 1:26.3 | I just love your podcast. I'm a huge huge huge cricket fan i have you know friends from |
| 1:32.2 | high school pakistani friends who are going to talk about cricket with but i don't really have |
| 1:36.1 | anybody to talk to about cricket and when i bring it up here everyone says the same thing doesn't |
| 1:41.0 | that take five days and i'm yeah, and it's fucking awesome. |
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