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South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Kumail Nanjiani

South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Meadowlark Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Comedy

4.915K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Kumail Nanjiani is returning to his roots. After reaching heights most actors can only dream of (like being a Marvel superhero!), he’s come back to the world of stand-up, where he made his start. Kumail opens up about his journey through self-acceptance: from being bullied as a kid, to dealing with typecasting, to achieving ground-breaking success and not knowing how to process it. He and Dan also get into masculinity culture, learning to manage their anger, and how therapy helped them understand their anxieties. Watch Kumail’s Golden Globe nominated new standup special, “Night Thoughts”, out December 19th on Hulu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0

Welcome to South Beach Sessions, back on the West Coast.

1:05.1

I'm very excited about this one because Kamail Nanjiani is a man of much range.

1:10.6

It's not just that he's an actor, he's a writer, and I think his first love is stand-up comedy.

1:12.4

He's returning to stand-up.

1:19.0

Night Thoughts is the special, Hulu, December 19th. He's in theaters now with Ella McKay. I wonder which of these, you've shown an extraordinary range, and your journey is fascinating, so thanks for being

1:24.5

with us, but which of these gives you the greatest joy, because you're going back to comedy now and you didn't have to do that. No, which brings me the greatest joy. It changes day to day. What I love about stand-up is it's really on you, your mistakes. It's you and the crowd. If something doesn't go right, it's completely your fault. When you're acting and stuff, truly when you're acting and stuff, you're at the mercy

1:47.9

of other people. So you really have to trust the filmmaker that they make you look good.

1:54.4

The actual doing of it, I enjoy acting the most, I would say, because I find it to be challenging.

2:02.4

And it's exciting because the goals are so varied.

2:08.3

Whereas with stand-up, your goal really is to make people laugh, right?

2:13.5

And it's not limited.

2:14.9

There's so much you could do with stand-up.

2:17.1

But with acting, you could really, it can be very cathartic.

2:20.9

You can, like, it kind of feels like it can feel like therapy, you know.

2:26.9

Stand-up, you can do really well and just have it be outward-facing.

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