Kumail Nanjiani will release a comedy special on Hulu, his first stand-up special in over a decade. The show will mark his second-ever standup special. Since Nanjiani’s first comedy special, Beta Male, in 2013, he’s starred in projects such as HBO’s Silicon Valley and Hulu’s Welcome to Chippendales, with other …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Not every sitcom star who gets in superhero shape goes back to comedy, but Kumail Nanjiani, who undertook an intense fitness regimen for his role in Eternals, is …
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Forty years ago, four men put on uniforms, came up with a catchy logo — a startled specter in a red circle with a slash going through it, no big whoop — strapped on some proton packs and saved New York City from an evil deity holed up in a …
Read More »Kumail Nanjiani Entered Therapy After Marvelously Bad 'Eternals' Reviews
In a review, Rolling Stone warned moviegoers that the 2021 Marvel movie Eternals “will bore you to death.” Moviegoers were somewhat kinder, giving the picture a solid C+, or 77 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and they spent close to $165 million domestically to see it, according to The Numbers. But …
Read More »Murder and Muscles Form an Empire in Hulu's 'Welcome To Chippendales' Trailer
Welcome to Chippendales, the forthcoming limited series chronicling the true story of Somen “Steve” Banerjee, lands somewhere at the intersection of muscles and murder. In the first teaser trailer for the show arriving on Hulu on Nov. 22, Kumail Nanjiani stars as the socially awkward male-stripping empire founder who would …
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