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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kunal Nayyar Gets Deep, Honest, and Hilarious | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-03. Transcript available.

Kunal Nayyar Gets Deep, Honest, and Hilarious | You Made It Weird

What's happening weirdos? This is Kunal Nayar. Kunal is amazing. He is
hilarious, deep, thoughtful,
smart, a delight. Yeah. You may know him as Raj on the Big Bang Theory. I know
him because we just
shot a movie together that isn't out yet, but it's called Patel. Keep an eye
out for that. But we just
really got along. We vibed. Vibed. I'm 46. We vibed really hard, and I'm so
glad you guys are here.
It's an awesome episode. Not much to say up top except go to PeteHolmes.com for
my tour dates.
I'm going to be in Spokane this weekend, and then St. Louis, L.A., Cleveland,
Florida, Miami Improv,
Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, New York, New Jersey, Milwaukee, Brea,
California, and Royal Oak,
Michigan. And I hope to see you at all of those. Follow me like the fish. The
fish. No, I hope to
see you if I'm coming to a town near you. Go to PeteHolmes.com for tickets. In
the meantime,
enjoy this wonderful chat with Kunal. He is amazing. You're about to see. Get
into it.
I joked with him about Forbes right away. There's not a lot on your Wikipedia,
but one of them is
like... Oh, really? Just your net worth. Just like right in there. Just like
Forbes said he made this
much in this year and this much in this year. Because Hollywood Reporter used
to... I don't
know if they do anymore. Every year would put out the list of the highest paid
TV actors.
Oh, my God. Every year. Does it... Do you mind if we talk about this?
No. Does it bug you? I think it's weird that I'm like, oh, is Kunal married?
Like, I'm looking for
like basic podcast fodder. And now I know what you made in 2018. Does it feel
invasive? Or weird?
Yeah, of course. Yeah, certainly. But like, I mean, how does it feel
emotionally for you that
that's like readily available? I mean, it doesn't bother me. I mean, it's
invasive. People treat you
differently because they know how much money you have. Right. Like, there's the
psychological aspect
of money that we can't deny. Yeah. I remember when we had Bill Gates. Ice cream
con. Ice cream
con. You had Bill Gates on your podcast? Oh, the show. On the show. On the show.
I mean,
there was a remarkable difference being around a billionaire and seeing how
people treat a
billionaire. Yeah, just there's something about the... What was it? How did
people treat Bill
Gates? I mean, there was... There's a lot of rich people on that set, but there
was... They're
not as rich as Bill Gates. Well, although maybe some of them now, but... But
yeah, I mean, you know,
like I said, it's the psychological... There's an energy... There's a
psychological energy that comes
with money. Well, you're like a magician. You're like magic somehow. Yeah, it's
like different. Like,
your personality gets less important than the physical asset that you own. Does
that make sense?
Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's like being incredibly beautiful. I was going to say,
like a very
beautiful woman. You talk to a very beautiful woman. She's always subjected to
the way she looks.
Incredibly handsome man. Yeah. And when you talk to... I've had people that are
friends with very,
very beautiful people. And when they're on like mushrooms or something, they unburden
themselves with
like the thing that nobody wants to hear, which is you don't know what a trap
this is. Like everywhere
I go, people treat me this way and expect me to be this way. And they want
something from you.
Yeah. Well, I mean, again... Even if it's just a smile.
But especially if you're a woman, just being hyper-sexualized your entire life
since you had
puberty is just... Right. Right.
It must feel so disgusting in a way. And then if someone's talking to Bill
Gates and you're like,
this guy could give me a grant. Yeah. Or something. Like he could fund my
entire...
But that's not even Bill Gates. That could be... There's a lot of people there
that could change
your life in an instant. Right. I mean, people ask me for money all the time on
DMs and stuff like
that. And it could be $500 or $1,000 or... Yeah. Do you ever do it?
Well, I like to go undercover on GoFundMe and help people sometimes.
I love that. I had a feeling. Gay man. Gay man with the sleeper GoFundMe.
It's so silly. It's fun. And then you get the updates.
It's my vigilante. My vigilante is the undercover GoFundMe, dude.
We don't perch on gargoyles anymore. We just click around on some websites.
That's nice.
But it is like on succession. And I wasn't even really planning on talking
about this with you,
but it is interesting. You weren't wealthy or rich or whatever you want to say.
And now you are.
So you have data from both sides. And the one thing we're saying is like people,
do you get the
sense or do you smell it that somebody is kind of gaming you or wanting
something from you?
I think instinctually, I've been quite good somehow. I think also growing up in
India,
you know, we were middle class. We didn't have a lot of money, but we were
educated. You know,
we came from a sort of a class of people that were considered educated and
upper class,
though it may not have been reflected in our lifestyle or our cash, if that
makes sense.
You're just around so much poverty, you know, that there's an acceptance. I
know this
sounds difficult to say, but there's, it's different than the poverty in
America.
Like something you see in Los Angeles, there's a lot of poverty and you're
afraid for your life
sometimes because someone may be on drugs or try to harm you. And that's what
you, you don't see
that so much in India. There's a real acceptance of the way the class system is.
Yeah. Um, I don't know if that makes any sense. No, I think I do. We were, we,
we've had two guests today and the last one was Forrest Galante. Um, or I hope
I'm saying that correctly. I never said his last name, but anyway, he works in
like the jungles and stuff. And he talks about like, you go up to a hippo, it's
gonna eat you. Like, it's gonna fuck you up. And he has this, like, you let me
know if I'm completely out of, out of depth here. He had this understanding of
like, kind of like, that's just natural. This thing will kill you.
two guests today and the last one was forrest galante um or i hope i'm saying
that correctly
i never said his last name but anyway he works in like the jungles and stuff
and he talks about like
you go up to a hippo it's gonna eat you like it's gonna you up and he has this
like
you let me know if i'm completely out of out of depth here he had this
understanding of like
kind of like that's just natural this thing will kill you these are there this
is and in india is
it more in tune with like there's this and then there's this and it's all kind
of happening on top
of itself as opposed to in america we have well there's skid row downtown and
then there's beverly
hills over here i think first of all yes physically yes there is definitely a
delineation you're not
living amongst it like in in delhi in new delhi you're living amongst it all
right you have the
mansions and then you have the slum right next to it that's just because every
the richer colonies of
people are serviced by a village that's right next to it where all the people
who serve them live in
so all the workers in your home live in a village that is right next to the
little sort of neighborhood
it'd be like los felis where all the rich people live and then it would be
right next it would be a
little colony where all the gardeners and all the cooks and all the chefs and
all the servants and
all the maids and everyone lives right so by the way i'm not trying to be funny
here like hawaii
that's a huge problem because hawaii everybody wants to vacation there and then
the people that work at these
resorts which are often the locals are obviously and rightfully upset you know
that white lotus was
about that yeah it's like now we can't afford to live on the place that used to
be our beach now
there's a gate here that's like spain spain is going they're fighting back
against over tourism because
ibiza was a place that i love is becoming unaffordable for all the locals and
they're just fighting back
against you know but going back to what you were saying about the the the the
sort of the new
delegation yeah there is a i think india just as a culture um accepts a certain
surrender to the way
things are as opposed to america is the place you come to anyone can become
president right and therefore
you are always wanting to be somewhere else other than where you are already
right it's the american
optimism exactly so in between your imagination and your reality a lot of
anxiety comes does that
make sense yeah so we don't have that so much in india there is a deep
acceptance that's what my friend
love uh love reiki i don't know if you know love just because he's a great
writer and he's worked on so
many shows but he was like in india the idea of your life being a work of art
is just not a thing
as much as it is in america where everyone's like i'm gonna have my 20s and
then i'll have my 30s and
then they'll go through this phase and then i'll die in this perfect way
surrounded by it's just like
today yeah what's gonna happen i don't know like it's not so much like but
there's a there's a real
peace in that there's a real peace in that feeling like for example let's say
you're sitting at home
and you're having a panic attack about something that has not happened and
suddenly your house
catches fire your panic attack is gone that's right your house is on fire yeah
that's it your imagination
is not dictating your reality your reality is dictating your reality right man
this is good ramdas would
say that because if your car veers off a cliff you're not horny yeah exactly
but but in america
you have so much comfort that you have time to pay for your imagination to
paint this sort of work of
art yeah future tripping is a luxury yeah and we have so much of it that's why
so many rich people are
unhappy miserable and again forrest and i were just talking about like he grew
up in zimbabwe he's like
there are these people that have nothing and i thought of india because ramdas
again would make
the same point he's like you see a kid living under a table literally living
under a table and he looks
as free exactly and here we're streaming 28 seasons of spongebob we're eating
all these things that our
brain wants fat and sugar and all this stuff so the secret to life clearly isn't
meeting all of your needs
yeah and it seems like maybe one of the secrets of life is to have actual
problems maybe we might say
like there's a comfort like i'll join you in this weird thought experiment i
say this all the time
but the people that were getting bombed in world war ii in london were the hap
they pulled them they
they missed that time when they were going underground at night and bombs were
going up because they had a
shared human beings pointed in the same direction are the happiest human beings
there are and when
they know what the threat is we go to bed in our mansions i'm just saying like
human beings rich people
go to bed and they worry about the tumor that isn't there or the assassin or
the thief none of this is
real so it can be as horrible as you want it to be as opposed to the daily
quest i need to find food today
i'm not trying to say on house people have it made by any means please don't
misunderstand what i'm saying
but human beings do well when we're like today i need to eat i need to sleep i
need to find shelter
that's why people on that show alone are so happy like they're kicking it or
camping people or
survivalists they understand this yes i mean i think there's a danger to that
too i mean i think anyone
can be enlightened if you live in a mountain alone and you never deal with any
other egos in this life
but that's their journey yeah yeah yeah i think that the recluse who was it
there was a swami that said
the best place to practice your sadhana is in the military or the police force
really and he was like
that's where you should go wow or spend a week with your family like bob 