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Voice of prizmo6/10/2023 ![]() The podcast, The Indoor Kids, was co-hosted by Nanjiani's wife, comic and writer Emily V. Since he knew video games much better, he convinced Hardwick to center the show on video game obsessions. ![]() During this era, Nanjiani moved from New York to Los Angeles, where podcast impresario Chris Hardwick invited him to create a show about comic books. Along with his burgeoning stand-up career, Nanjiani had small roles in the films "Life As We Know It" (2010) and "The Five Year Engagement" (2012). The producers wanted the writers to also have bit parts on the show, and Nanjiani discovered that the acting informed his writing, and the writing improved his acting. He worked briefly as a writer on "Saturday Night Live" (NBC 1975- ), but his work on the short-lived sketch program "Michael and Michael Have Issues" (Comedy Central 2009) gave him his first taste of acting. His major in computer sciences, gave him a solid nerd-culture base for his act as he drifted slowly into the comedy world of New York City. By his junior year in college he began doing his own stand-up routines. In college, he first discovered stand-up by listening to his uncle's tapes of comedy acts, and he became obsessed. Born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1978, Nanjiani moved to Iowa with his family when he was 18. He wrote for some of the hippest and most ground-breaking TV comedies of his era, and still found time to co-host a podcast about the nerd world of video games while putting together a weekly live show that helped put Los Angeles back on the map of stand-up. A comedic jack of all trades, Kumail Nanjiani never forgot his Pakistani roots even while riffing on the all-American life he had created for himself.
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