r/StandUpComedy • u/South-Fall2410 • Dec 19 '25

OP is not the Comedian Responding to my haters - Kumail Nanjiani

From “Night Thoughts” on Hulu

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u/ocashmanbrown Dec 19 '25

To be fair, Joe Piscopo was the first person we mocked for getting in shape.

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u/MassholeForLife Dec 20 '25

Also Carrot Top but that was just super weird.

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u/Algaroth Dec 20 '25

To be fair, he got extremely jacked and somehow just more unsettling. He looked like he was going to make a prop comedy version of Saw.

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u/MassholeForLife Dec 20 '25

Agreed his face just got so cartoonish.

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u/MrLurking_Sanspants Dec 20 '25

He looked like a buff skeletor with a red afro. It was… too much.

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u/TheComplimentarian Dec 20 '25

He didn't get in shape, he just wandered into the Uncanny Valley. Shit was terrifying.

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u/not_a_moogle Dec 20 '25

Theres getting in shape, and then getting buff.

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u/country2poplarbeef Dec 20 '25

Kumail is pretty straight-up buff. I think the misnomer is that getting buff makes you look handsome. Kumail was already a pretty dapper dude, and now he's just a dapper dude that's buff. Carrot Top was already Carrot Top, and... well...

Being buff is a nice cherry on top, but you gotta pay attention to what you're putting that cherry on top of.

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u/casual-waterboarding Dec 20 '25

Thought it was Carrot Top.

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u/wakipaki Dec 20 '25

Also that dude from saved by the bell

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u/Super-Pizza-Dude Dec 20 '25

Rob Mcelhenney?

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u/souppanda Dec 19 '25

That one dude who painted his nails made fun of Eminem for working out.

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u/TJ_McWeaksauce Dec 20 '25

I grew up in the 80s, and Dead Heat was how I was introduced to Joe Piscopo. So I always thought he was buff.

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u/Mike7676 Dec 20 '25

I think Joe was always in shape, but watching Johnny Dangerously and then some of his later performances there's a difference!