Being on a hit comedy can be both a blessing and a curse. Obviously, the blessing is that you’re on a hit comedy. I mean, that’s got to be pretty awesome. But the double-edged sword is that many actors in popular comedies can’t walk down the street without their catchphrases yelled at them. And when you’re on a series like Silicon Valley, that features lots of sophisticated dick humor, like in the case of Kumail Nanjiani, this can be especially trying.
As Nanjiani told Seth Meyers last night, he regularly gets asked what his “D2F” (dick to floor ratio) is, and how fast he can “jerk off all the guys in the room.” Say what you will about The Big Bang Theory, but getting “BAZINGA!” yelled at an actor in public is still probably preferable to “SNACK DICK!”
