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Hey everyone, my name is Kumail Nanjiani and I am a writer for this new show we have here. It's super fun and exciting. But I am not here to talk about myself. I am here to talk about Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black. I am in a totally privileged position so I will be posting trivia and facts about them that only someone who sees them every single day would know. To get started, here are a couple:
Not many people know this, but Michael Ian Black is actually extremely tall. Like, grotesquely tall. Like, wrong side of 8 feet tall. So, every television show or movie he is in has to spend lots of money on special effects to make him seem normal heighted. This is why the reported budget for Wet Hot American Summer was over $300 million.
Michael Showalter recently wrote a sketch starring a huge fire monster, and when told that we couldn't afford all that cg effects stuff because we spent all our budget trying to make Black look like not a huge freakozoid, he suggested we "just hire that actor who played Balrog, the flame monster dragon thing who knocks Gandalf off the stairs in Lord of the Rings." Showalter thought that was an actor! Like, an actual guy that looked like that! What a maroon! When we explained to him that that monster was an extremely expensive cg creation, he looked disappointed and them promptly rewrote it to star King Kong instead.
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Posted by Jennifer on April 16, 2009 at 8:29 am
Dear Kumail,
I love you now. Not as much as I love the Michaels, but I still love you.
Posted by rom on April 15, 2009 at 2:00 pm
kumail in the new episode of jake and amir, very nice.
Posted by consuela on April 15, 2009 at 2:17 am
weak. hella weak. ur fired.
Posted by Cam on April 14, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Congrats on joining the fold! Have they Punk'd you yet? I'd draw the line at scooping Sho's catboxes and scoring smack for Black.
Posted by Ruha on April 14, 2009 at 1:50 pm
That WHAS budget problem is bullshit. I heard it cost $300 million purely because of the "day in town" drug scene. Do you know how many tons of coke they had to go through to get that right! Not to mention how much they needed just to have a good time?! Anyway, drugs, not height issues, that's where all the money goes.
Posted by R on April 14, 2009 at 12:04 pm
What a maroon, indeed!
My friend and I saw you open for Stella. You were very funny, but the thing I remember the most was my friend would not stop yip-yapping about your body.
Ladies? Oh, my!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XacfJR5PIFo&feature=related