Kumail, Kunal Nayyar and Kal Penn Have A Hilarious Conversation On Being Mistaken For Each Other

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There are countless incidents wherein people have mistaken laymen to be celebrities and vice versa. There are also cases where celebrities have been mistaken for other celebrities. It’s quite common for brown or coloured actors in Hollywood to be confused with some other actor/politician/artist of colour.

Although celebrities are mostly sportive about it, you can only imagine how annoying it must be to be constantly called or recognized by someone else’s name and achievements.

That’s exactly what Kumail Nanjiani, Pak-American comedian, actor and writer, meant when he took to Twitter to share his thoughts.

https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/971874643371012096

Funny, right? Absolutely. But that’s the thing about comedy – it is someone else’s misery. And the thing about misery? It always has company.

Kunal Nayyar, of The Big Bang Theory fame, replied to Kumail with his own bittersweet thought on being mistaken for him sometimes.

https://twitter.com/kunalnayyar/status/971875379005702144

The cherry on this already amazing cake was added when Kal Penn, of Harold & Kumar fame, responded to the tweet too. And this one was the funniest, really.

Twitterati found this conversation really entertaining, and TBH, it is. Pretty soon, people joined in with sarcasm, relatable thoughts, suggestions and questions of their own.

1. Another one joins the ‘relatable gang’.

2. Erm, sarcastic much?

3. Someone tag Kunal Nayyar on this one, please!

4. That has to be some consolation.

5. This one has too many feels.

6. You mean you loved Dev Patel, yea?

7. At least someone is flattered by the confusion.

8. Really cannot decide if he’s being sarcastic or real…

It’s one thing to mistake common people for celebrity look-alikes. But it’s a completely different ball game to confuse one famous celebrity for another. I mean, they’re famous for a reason, and no, all brown actors do NOT look the same. Nonetheless, this Twitter conversation of the boys sharing relatable thoughts totally made my day.

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