Last month, The New Yorker released an "exposé" of Hasan Minhaj that revealed so-called fibs that Minhaj told during his stand-up routines. Minhaj countered with a statement, and now a video sharing all the correcting information — texts, messages and emails — he offered to the story's writer during the interview. Salon's Sophia A. McClennen unpacks what happened with this "manufactured scandal."
On Hasan Minhaj, Trauma Passports, and Immigrant Fictions
It would appear that Minhaj has lost his Trauma Passport: that potent combination of trauma stories mixed in with just enough humour to seem edgy but not, you know, depressing. Yasmin Nair writes.
Standup comedian Hasan Minhaj was recently profiled by The New Yorker, which gotcha-ed him with the revelation that some of his onstage anecdotes may have been made up. Minhaj told The Hollywood Reporter that all his standup is based in truth, saying: "I use the tools of standup comedy — hyperbole, changing names and locations, and compressing timelines to tell entertaining stories." Here's the full article. What's your opinion?