{"id":55943,"date":"2015-11-14T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55943"},"modified":"2015-08-18T18:25:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T22:25:24","slug":"ny-comedy-festival-kumail-nanjiani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55943","title":{"rendered":"NY Comedy Festival: Kumail Nanjiani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 14 \u00a0\u00a0 10PM<br \/>\nNY Comedy Festival<br \/>\nNYU Skirball Center, 566 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nyuskirball.org\/uploads\/events\/2f061a624cd89479febb4bdfebc3674a16fac5db.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[55943]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/nyuskirball.org\/uploads\/events\/2f061a624cd89479febb4bdfebc3674a16fac5db.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kumail is a tireless Los Angeles-based writer, actor, and comedian. He has been seen performing stand-up on Conan, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with David Letterman, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. His 2013 comedy special Beta Male was on the &#8220;best of 2013&#8221; lists for Vulture, Village Voice, and The Onion&#8217;s AV Club, and it was chosen best comedy special of the year by Entertainment Weekly. Kumail is a recurring cast member on shows like Portlandia, AdventureTime, and the web series Burning Love, among others. He has also appeared in the feature films Hell Baby, Loaded, Bad Milo, Five Year Engagement, and Hot Tub Time Machine 2. He was a regular cast member on TNT&#8217;s Franklin and Bash for two seasons and is now a regular cast member on HBO\u2019s Silicon Valley. The live show he cohosts, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, is considered the best standup show in Los Angeles and is now a series on Comedy Central.<\/p>\n<p>For information and visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/nyuskirball.org\/calendar\/kumailnanjiani\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nyuskirball.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 14 \u00a0\u00a0 10PM NY Comedy Festival NYU Skirball Center, 566 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55946,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943\/revisions\/55946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}