Kumail Nanjiani Is Probably Going to Be Big and Famous

Someday in the not-too-distant future, you and I will look back and think about how weird it was when Kumail Nanjiani wasn't super famous. I'll be like, "Remember when The New York Times had that piece about how Kumail Nanjiani was still unknown outside of comedy-nerd circles but on the cusp of breaking out?" And you'll be all, "Get out of here! Can't you see I'm making love to my robot again?"

Here's a little bit of the aforementioned article:

This year has been even bigger. He has been writing for and performing in the Comedy Central show “Michael and Michael Have Issues” (which stars Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter, pillars of the mid-’90s sketch-comedy television show “The State”). He has also been appearing intermittently on “The Colbert Report” (as a detainee whom Stephen Colbert keeps in his desk), and in July, he appeared — after being rejected the previous four years — in the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. That led to his selling NBC on an idea for a sitcom that he would write and star in.

“It’s basically about my marriage and my family — a Pakistani living in Brooklyn with his Southern wife,” Mr. Nanjiani said. “My wife’s from North Carolina. But instead of having her parents still there in North Carolina, they’re living in New Jersey near my parents. So we’re all sort of these displaced people in this big mutant family.”

Well, that certainly sounds awesome? I'll take one ticket, please. You need tickets to watch network TV shows, right?

After the jump, you can see a video of Kumail doing standup on the set of Michael and Michael Have Issues and a clip of him as Omar on The Colbert Report. And, you can also catch Kumail on this season of Live at Gotham, which airs Fridays at 11pm / 10c.