April 02, 2026
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Kumail Nanjiani will take a recurring role as a defense attorney in Season 2 of 'Deli Boys.'
A few new faces will round out the second season of "Deli Boys," the sitcom about a drug ring run out of a Grays Ferry convenience store, when it returns to Hulu on May 28.
Kumail Nanjiani and Andrew Rannells will have recurring roles as lawyers on opposite sides of the courtroom. Nanjiani, who recently dropped his second stand-up special, will play defense attorney Danyal. His client is casino kingpin Max Sugar (Fred Armisen, in a previously announced role). Rannells, meanwhile, plays Andrew Chadwater, a Philadelphia district attorney plotting a mayoral run.
They'll join returning regulars Saagar Shaikh and Asif Ali as spoiled nepo babies Raj and Mir. After their father's sudden death, they're left in charge of his convenience store empire, which was actually a front for drug trafficking. The feds have picked up on this and subsequently reduced his chain to a single shop in Grays Ferry. With the help of their father's most trusted advisers Lucky (Poorna Jagannathan) and Ahmad (Brian George) — they hate each other, by the way — the brothers try to get the business back on track. The FBI remains suspicious, for good reason.
Former late-night talk show hosts Lilly Singh and Robin Thede will also make guest appearances in Season 2. Singh has been cast as Aisha, the wife of distribution operative Ali Sahir. Unfortunately for Ali (and the brothers), she's obsessed with Raj. Thede will play Dr. Iverson, "a couples therapist with questionable ethics."
"Queer Eye" co-host Tan France will also reprise his guest role as suave British-Pakistani mobster Zubair.
"Deli Boys" is the brainchild of Abdullah Saeed, a Temple University alum and former Philadelphia Weekly journalist. It debuted in March 2025, along with seemingly every other crime show set in our fair city.
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