On July 30, 2014, Nanjiani appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor Podcast. Each episode features him and a guest, including former The X-Files writers, producers, actors and directors, in light-hearted banter about one or two episodes of the series. In July 2014, Nanjiani hosted a weekly podcast titled The X-Files Files, dedicated to discussion and fond reminiscences about The X-Files. He voiced Reggie in the video game The Walking Dead: Season Two. In April 2014, he began playing the character Dinesh in the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley. The show, featuring Nerd Melt comedy regulars and various comedians, began airing in July 2014. In late June 2013, Comedy Central announced the pickup of a show The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail hosted by Jonah Ray and Nanjiani.
His Comedy Central special titled Beta Male aired in July 2013. He had a recurring role of Amir Larussa on Newsreaders, as well as Prismo on Adventure Time. Nanjiani guest-starred on HBO's Veep as a statistician. He played the role of Pindar Singh, an agoraphobic fiction nerd working for the title characters.
In addition to guest-starring in various comedy shows like Portlandia, Nanjiani was featured in a supporting role in the TNT series Franklin & Bash. He played a delivery man in the 2013 film, The Kings of Summer. Until other commitments took over, he appeared regularly on Dan Harmon's podcast Harmontown, where he played Dungeons & Dragons with Harmon as a character named Chris de Burgh. In late August of the same year Baker left the show and Nanjiani began hosting with his wife, Emily V. In 2011, Nanjiani and X-Play staffer Ali Baker began hosting a video game-themed podcast, titled The Indoor Kids. In 2009, he performed at the Just for Laughs comedy festival. After moving to New York, he continued to perform stand-up and made occasional appearances on shows including Michael & Michael Have Issues and The Colbert Report. In 2007, Nanjiani wrote and staged an original autobiographical one-man show in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. He then moved to Chicago and began performing stand-up comedy at open-mic events. and enrolled at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, where he graduated in 2001 with a double major in computer science and philosophy. Michael's Convent School for his O Levels and graduated from Karachi Grammar School to complete his A Levels, where he was the class-fellow of Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy. During his childhood, he lived in Karachi and attended St. The BBC radio presenter Shereen Nanjiani is his second cousin. Nanjiani grew up in Karachi, the first of two sons of Pakistani Muslim couple Shabana and Aijaz Nanjiani. He also starred as the Eternal Kingo in the Marvel Studios superhero film Eternals (2021), which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He also co-hosted the Comedy Central show The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, as well as playing various roles on the comedy series Portlandia. Nanjiani has also voiced Prismo on the animated series Adventure Time and starred in the TNT series Franklin & Bash and the Adult Swim series Newsreaders. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Gordon, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
For co-writing the latter with his wife, Emily V.
He is primarily known for his role as Dinesh in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley (2014–2019) and for co-writing and starring in the romantic comedy film The Big Sick (2017). Kumail Ali Nanjiani ( / k ʊ ˈ m eɪ l ˌ n ɑː n dʒ i ˈ ɑː n i/ Sindhi: ڪُميل علي ننجیاڻي Urdu: کمیل علی ننجیانی born ) is a Pakistani-American comedian, actor, and screenwriter.