Hasan Minhaj Admits Many Of His Anecdotes In His Comedy Specials Are Fictional: “My Style Is Built Around A Seed Of Truth”
deadline.comIt’s mainly fiction. Former Patriot Act host and The Daily Show alum Hasan Minhaj is acknowledging that many of the stories he has told in his comedy specials are fabricated. “Every story in my style is built around a seed of truth,” Minhaj said in a profile in The New Yorker.“My comedy Arnold Palmer is 70% emotional truth — this happened — and then 30% hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction.” Minhaj is a two-time Peabody Award-Winning comedian best known for his breakout Netflix special Homecoming King and his critically acclaimed, political satire show Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj for Netflix which won a Peabody, an Emmy, and a Television Academy Honor.
In his 2022 Netflix standup special The King’s Jester, Minhaj relayed a story about threats he received following Patriot Act segments on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi and Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalism.
In the special, he tells the story of a letter sent to his home which was filled with white powder, which accidentally spilled onto his young daughter.
Believing the powder was anthrax, the child was rushed to the hospital, and the powder turned out not to be anthrax. Later that night, he said his wife told him, “‘You get to say whatever you want onstage, and we have to live with the consequences.
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