If not for his Academy Award-nomination for The Big Sick, I would consider this beloved HBO series to be Kumail Nanjiani’s crowning achievement in the world of comedy.
As programmer Dinesh “Pakistani Denzel” Chugtai, Nanjiani has contributed to much of the series’ most priceless moments, especially those involving his not very friendly rivalry with Satanist coworker, Bertam Gilfoyle (fellow MCU actor Martin Starr).
Created by former tech engineer Mike Judge (the mastermind behind Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill, and Office Space), Silicon Valley is a brutally authentic and relentlessly hilarious look at the titular California region’s start-up scene as told from the point of view of a meek engineer (Thomas Middleditch) and his colleagues, struggling to get their company, Pied Piper, off the ground.
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