Michael and Michael Have Issues

Thanks for putting up my shame for all to see. A random read thru where I am forced to sing even though I wouldn't be able to carry a tune if it came with a handle. Here are some other videos you can put up, if you really want to continue the humiliation:

1. Me getting dumped by my high school girlfriend as I cry into a bouquet of roses.

2. Me just straight up pooping into a Wendy's Biggie size cup.

3. My mom telling me she has always been faking her love for me, and then a bird poops on me. This may require some dubbing and post production, but I bet you can do it!

Yay humiliations!

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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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