- We were in Italy yesterday.
We got in last night.
And I grew this mustache
and I had this fedora--
I don't know, is this a fedora?
- No, I don't think so.
I think it's--
isn't a fedora a bigger rim?
I don't know.
I could be wrong.
- We'd have to ask Bruno Mars.
I don't know.
[audience laughter]
Because he wears hats!
Stupid joke.
So yeah, so I--no.
I grew this, and I--
you know--
I was in Italy, and I was--
What happens to me
is I get overexcited
and I began to act Italian,
like even though--
And so speaking English
in an Italian accent,
is not the same thing as
speaking Italian.
You know, so, someone
would refill my water,
and I'd be "Grazie! Grazie!"
you know.
And they'd be like, "Prego!"
and I'd be "Grazie!"
I kept doing that,
and I was annoying myself.
[audience laughter]
I ate a lot of pasta,
and drank a lot of red wine.
- Nothing wrong with
any of that.
- I got really sick of it,
though.
- Oh, really?
- Yeah, you never thought
you'd get sick of it,
but I came home yesterday
and ordered a bunch of
Indian food.
[audience laughter]
Which we--
which we just call "food,"
I guess, but--
[audience laughter]
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
But oh, that's--
that's a funny picture.
There was a--
our server,
she said, "This is a speciality
of the restaurant."
She's like, "Look at this bread.
What does it look like?"
And I started giggling.
[audience laughter]
And I was like, "I don't know,
what does it look like to you?"
And she's like,
"This is a bone,
of the dinosaur, mammoth bone."
- That's what it looks like
to me too.
What does it look like to you,
Kunal?
[audience laughter]
- Anyway--
[audience laughter]
[audience laughter]
I have another good breadstick
story if you'd like to hear.
[audience laughter]
- It must be hard for you to go
anywhere in the world,
because the show is so popular.
- Oh, thank you, yeah.
- What do people say to you?
- Well, the show--
yeah, I'm so lucky.
The show's become so huge
in Italy.
I got a lot of this in Italy:
[in Italian accent]
"Big bang! Big bang! Big bang!"
But they'd be like looking
and going--
They're trying to say
"big bang,"
but excitedly and in a hurry,
and Italians are very friendly.
They like to grab you
and touch you
and so I was molested a lot.
[audience laughter]
But because they have
big hearts, you know.
So I got a lot of that,
like, "Big bang! Big bang!
Big bang!"
So I just started doing that
back to people.
They were like, "Big bang!"
I'm like, "Big bang!"
I started doing that.
[audience laughter]
Then I was like,
"Grazie, prego."
[audience laughter]
- Let's talk about your book,
"Yes, My Accent Is Real."
And what made you want to--
Some of the stories
are hilarious.
I mean, it really is quite
a story,
so tell people why you
wanted to--
- I--you know, I was this kid
from New Delhi,
who moved to America in '99,
and ended up on this show,
and I wanted to write my journey
because I wanted to inspire
young kids
to stop doing what their
parentse are telling them to do
and live out their dreams.
Um, so--
[audience laughter]
But still, buy it for your
children for Christmas.
And, um--
[audience laughter]
No, you know, I had all these
crazy stories.
I wrote a lot about
my love life in there,
just to--I don't know why,
but I--
I just wanted to show all
my ex-girlfriends
that "Look at me now," you know,
like one of those things?
[laughter and applause]
Yeah, I--no.
[applause]
No, no--there's no spite.
There's no spite.
- One story--'cause we don't
have time for all of them--
but one more story: this was--
you got this show,
which is like one of
the biggest shows
that, you know,
has been on television,
and you got it in--
that was your first audition.
It was, yeah,
one of my first few,
and then I didn't know
that the--
you know, I auditioned,
like, on a Friday,
I got called back on a Monday,
and then I thought
it was gonna--
You know, I was told
I was going to get a job,
but then it took a longer time
to get it,
but look at us now--
I mean, it's unbelievable.
- No, it's a great story,
because it takes forever,
and just when you were
about to give up, they--
you were about to say, "Don't--"
you know,
"Don't give 'em any more time,"
you gave 'em more time.
Anyway, it's amazing,
and it's in stores now.
It's called "Yes,
My Accent Is Real,"
and today you're all going home
with a copy.
[cheers and applause]
