Kumail Nanjiani Loves The Homemade Bread Craze: ‘It Made Me Cry For 3 Days Straight’

Kumail Nanjiani’s parents love to buy accessories featuring images of their son’s ripped physique.

How soon is now, is now, and the neon painted landscape strokes to the club beat. That night was more than a sweaty crowded dance floor your friends dragged you to—criminally packed bodies bumping, tossed together—searching for one another.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Kumail Nanjiani recently revealed that he lost out on a major role in a Hollywood film because he refused to play up his Pakistani accent. The Eternals star opened up about how he still struggles to find auditions where people don’t ask him to do a Pakistani accent to land “stereotypical brown guy roles.” Although the actor did mention that he would never shy away from flaunting his accent if the role demanded it, he asserted that he did not feel comfortable doing it just for comedy. 

"I just didn’t want the comedy to just be coming from someone exaggerating their accent"

Kumail Nanjiani revealed that he once refused to play up his Pakistani accent while auditioning for a major film role that he ultimately didn’t get.

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Kumail Nanjiani is definitely not skipping his workouts during the quarantine period!

Issa Rae is proud of Kumail Nanjiani. During her virtual visit to Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday, the Insecure star recalled witnessing the early stages of her The Lovebirds' co-star's shocking fitness transformation, admitting that she's "extremely jealous" of his new physique.

Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae are a quarreling couple out to solve a murder, but the first movie directed by Michael Showalter since "The Big Sick" is a crime comedy that aims lower than it thinks.

One plus one can occasionally equal too much.

"Why is this guy funny?" is an impossible question to answer, but I think I've figured out why Kumail Nanjiani is guaranteed to get a guffaw outta me every time he opens his mouth. His on-screen persona, from Dinesh on Silicon Valley, to his schmoozes on talk shows and podcasts, is of a sharp, insightful and erudite person… who will then smash his cred into a thousand pieces saying something truly dumb. It's a simple enough gimmick, but it works on me every time.

A good comedy pairing is always a joy to watch, almost regardless of the material. When a comedy’s premise can be high quality as well, laughs are inevitable for those watching the film.

Kumail Nanjiani and Stephen Colbert gave updates on how they are holding up during the novel coronavirus pandemic on Monday's episode of Colbert's Late Show. "I'm OK.

Kumail Nanjiani might be letting quarantine get to him! The 42-year-old star appeared on Monday's where he talked about his latest obsession while in quarantine from the coronavirus pandemic that has brought him to tears numerous times. 

Kumail Nanjiani just gave back in a big way by just planking!

Kumail Nanjiani just accomplished the ultimate fitness goal.  During his virtual visit to The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday, The Big Sick star performed an impressive rendition of The Bangles' hit song "Eternal Flame" while in a plank position.