[10] In September of the same year, Nainan was arrested and charged with simple assault after he was accused of punching Daily Beast journalist Josh Rogin in Washington, D.C.

The incident allegedly happened after Rogin published a social media post criticizing Nainan's act.

Prior to the Daily Beast's article, in 2012, Nainan had told the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal that he was 31 and 36 years old, respectively.

According to researcher Matthew Daube, this type of stand-up comedy has been linked since its inception in the 1950s to issues of race and ethnicity in the United States.

[13][3] In 2024, Nainan claimed to have dated separately two women whom he had been assigned to sit between on a Southwest Airlines flight.