Hasan Minhaj ADMITS Fabricating Discrimination Claims For Comedy Bits
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- čas přidán 17. 09. 2023
- The stand-up comedian Hasan Minhaj admitted that while his stories are based on a "seed of truth," but many are not true. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
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"The comedian Hasan Minhaj came of age as a practicing Muslim in an Indian family in post-9/11 America. His Netflix series, “Patriot Act”-a comedy news show in the mold of “The Daily Show” and “Last Week Tonight”-was named for the defining law of that era. The series won an Emmy and a Peabody Award during its two-year run. His stage work as a standup comic has led to two Netflix comedy specials, which have drawn plaudits for Minhaj’s blend of autobiographical storytelling and social-justice commentary. He recently conducted a lengthy sit-down interview with Barack Obama and is a leading candidate to succeed Trevor Noah as the next host of “The Daily Show.” In 2019, Minhaj was selected as one of Time magazine’s most influential people. In an accompanying article, Noah wrote, “We’ve needed Hasan’s voice since Donald Trump came down that golden escalator and turned immigrants and Muslims into his targets.” Minhaj’s “whip-smart commentary, charisma and sincerity,” he went on, was “a consistent reminder that Hasan is America. And America is Hasan.”
In Minhaj’s approach to comedy, he leans heavily on his own experience as an Asian American and Muslim American, telling harrowing stories of law-enforcement entrapment and personal threats. For many of his fans, he has become an avatar for the power of representation in entertainment. But, after many weeks of trying, I had been unable to confirm some of the stories that he had told onstage. When we met on a recent afternoon, at a comedy club in the West Village, Minhaj acknowledged, for the first time, that many of the anecdotes he related in his Netflix specials were untrue. Still, he said that he stood by his work. “Every story in my style is built around a seed of truth,” he said. “My comedy Arnold Palmer is seventy per cent emotional truth-this happened-and then thirty per cent hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction.”"
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surely this video needs to be retracted
Hate to say it, but this may need updating given Minhaj’s recent reply….
Moreover, a retraction, removal of this video, and dare I say apology might be due…..
lol Minhaj just admitted to everything the New Yoker accused him of.
People have been commenting, "He's comedian, and comedians make up untrue stories for laughs all the time. He's not a politician and he's not a journalist, so his lies don't matter." But Cenk and Ana explained in the video why they DO MATTER. I think people making this comment didn't watch the whole video and if they did, they have listening comprehension problems.
1. A woman's life and that of her family were negatively impacted because of a lie he told about her. She ended up being threatened, doxxed and harassed and Hasan Minhaj shows no remorse over it. Clearly, many people believed that story was factual if it drove them to threaten a woman's life.
2. There's a huge difference between telling a little story that's not true for a punchline and creating an elaborate story that's not funny at all and has no punchline. He's repeated his stories outside of the context of comedy as though they were true. It's stuff like this that sows distrust in people and creates conflict where there doesn't need to be any.
Exactly.
Fix this , fix this , fix this, fix this. Context is everything. Now that there's proof, fix it. I expect nothing less from TYT
lol Minhaj just admitted to everything the New Yoker accused him of.
@@phantagirlable You respond on a lot of comments sayimg the same thing. Most people disagree with you. Seems like you really dislike Hasan Minhaj.
@@shekool18 No, most of his FANS disagree with the facts and condone his lies. And yes, I really really dislike hate crime hoaxers and liars who generate hatred towards a group or groups of people based on lies to profit off said lies. And in this case it's particularly egregious because muslims are known to be violent or kill people who they "feel" wronged them. For him as the USA's most prominent muslim to this is also the pinnacle of muslim-typical gaslighting. They victimize people and then quickly gaslight the public into believing THEY are the true victims here. He is despicable, but not in his own opinion because his religion and culture does not only condone lying, it demands it if it advances Islam.
He didn't want people to laugh when he told those stories!! He wanted support and sympathy. Even the comedian Akaash from Flagrant said the guy told him the prom girl story in a serious conversation. He simply wanted to play the victim!! Pathetic!
He held up a pic of a woman claiming he rejected him because her family didn't like his race and then doxed her ...then people sent death threats ..YEAH THAT IS NOT OK
@@HJ-ll8iq How could she be harassed unless she had been doxed? If she hadn't been doxed, then no one would know who to harass.
@@HJ-ll8iq If he hadn't come up with a crazy story that didn't happen, that woman's life wouldn't have been ruined. People presumed he was telling the truth. Quit defending bad people.
@@HJ-ll8iq How was that comedy?
Hilarious right??
How dare a white woman reject the romantic advances of an Asian Indian?
I had watched Hasan Minhaj's response to the New Yorker story before watching this video, and I must say that this did not age well. For an organization that is supposedly skeptical of mainstream media, they both into this character assassination hook line and sinker.
Same here.
If Hasan used these fake stories to make his jokes funnier, it'd be excusable. Comedians do that all the time. But he didn't tell these stories as jokes. He straight up told them as testimonies--to get sympathy, not laughs.
And the fool actually showed the PICTURE AND NAME of the FBI guy he falsely accused on a stage screen, probably because he figured nobody would call him out on the claim. 😐 The girl he accused of turning him down got doxxed and had to defend her good name even though she's married to another Indian man, which proves race had nothing to do with her turning Hasan down for prom.
These weren't just spiced-up jokes. They were downright libelous.
Please provide an updated response since Hasan Minhaj has posted his own video
Hasan Minhaj = The Jussie Smollett of stand up comedy
Ahhh, what is happening!?! It is apparent that you have not done your research into the New Yorker article. Very disappointed, I have trusted your commentary up until now.
As an Indian guy that's roughly 8-10 years older than Hasan Minhaj, I always suspected his stories were a bunch of BS. First, yes racism is absolutely real, I encountered PLENTY of it growing up in 80s and 90s America, but Hasan's stories of his growing up in the 90s and 2000s made my stuff look quaint, and there's the fact that he's a reasonably good-looking guy. Good looking people of any race generally get a pass from bigots, because everyone likes good looking people. So I always looked at this guy's stories and was like huh....so you really went through all that shit in like 2004, while yes, I did face social racism and had a hard time dating non-Indian girls as a kid in the 80s and 90s, why are your stories from the 90s and 2000s so much worse? I mean when I was a kid in 1985 and 1995, I never, ever had a White person refuse to have their picture taken with me, those kinds of stories always seemed way too zany and over the top, but here this guy was as a kid having such a crazy experience in the 2000s.
Haha same. I could tell something didn't sound right. I'm a minority too. It's wild how emotional he gets on stage telling fake discrimination stories.
@@m.2891 Guys like Hasan and Jesse Smollet that make up stupid crap make people that go through real racism harder to tell their stories. *Usually*, real life racism isn't as over the top as these guys stories, it's more quiet and subtle. But these idiots have to make up fake stories for some agenda, and then when anyone tells a real story no one will believe it.
Yes! I'm a Muslim, Desi, and a child of the 70s who grew up in predominantly white towns. I've almost never experienced bigotry, and no I'm not naive.
100%
I don't have your background and experience but I also sniffed out BS in "Homecoming King." I told my son so right after we watched that show a few years ago. My problem with it was that its details were just too convenient, too perfect for an account that Minhaj would WANT to tell. People should be much more suspicious of ANY narrative that is convenient for the teller or pushes the buttons of the listener.
This guy needs to be cancelled. He's making money playing victim. He also deliberately humiliated & caused a girl to be harassed & receive death threats simply for not wanting to date him. We all know comedy is not all real but he crossed the line with his lies. He's sowing hate. Shame on him!
Well he's a member of a protected class, so of course he will suffer little if any consequences other than some online outrage. His career will remain perfectly intact.
You don’t need to be cancelled. Canceled means people don’t fuck with you anymore. That can or can’t be permanent. Depends on how the person reacts. Anyone who says they’re canceled can suck it up. There’s always an audience.
I agree with cenk…. If he just admitted it was all fake it would be less annoying then all this “emotional truth” and BS.
Right, Minhaj has just made it worse with his excuse-making since the story broke.
I think TYT needs to clear this story (and present Hassan's side as well)- otherwise I will be unsubscribing
lol Minhaj just admitted to everything the New Yoker accused him of.
Looks like Roy Woods Jr got a promotion 😊
That's what I'm thinking.
This isn’t just made up stories for jokes. He mentions real people who he portrayed to be racist when they weren’t.
This is not aging well today.
🤣
lol Minhaj just admitted to everything the New Yoker accused him of.
Making claims about discrimination when there was none is very dangerous. He's crying wolf for jokes at the expense of people who actually experience discrimination. There are already people in this country who don't believe discrimination claims and this just solidifies the disbelief in those claims. What a piece of work this guy is.
You would care if Chris Rock said the exact same thing.
This is people complaining about nothing because they can't tell the difference between reality and a joke .
He's a damn comedian this is only news worthy if he made these claims to the police or to a journalist. This is what comedians do THIS is why people have such a damn problem with the left. He's nothing like Jesse Smollett because he never came out in some press conference claiming these things happened he never went to the police claiming these things happened
@@susanmiller4520 Are you defending lies that he has admitted to because he is a comedian? He didn't say he was just joking. He said they were lies. As a comedian, you don't identify people in your life and the racially discriminated against you as a joke when it's a known lie. That's like claiming you were raped and then saying, "I was just joking" when the guy is jailed.
@@susanmiller4520 Wow! Couldn't say it all in one comment, huh? You mad? To answer your question, as touched on in the other reply, if Chris Rock identified as person as racially discriminating him in his life, and it was a lie? Yes I would care. It's different if you joke about relating to racial discrimination. Would you like it if I told audiences around the nation that you were a racist and then years later I told a reporter I was just joking?
"emotional truths" is 100% something a narcissist says to justify their lies.
Like Trump saying that he saw thousands of people in Jersey City cheering as the Twin Towers fell. I'm sure that that was "emotionally true" to MAGAts.
thats that radicalism talking....the cause must be advanced ...plus the personal advancement...
And it actually sounds more like something Candace Owens would say.
Well, he replied and it was obvious that the reporter is the liar not him!
You guys misled ur audience. Where is the correction????Ana is so cocky. I once admired her!
She should make a correction. You too Cenk.
The problem is not that he made up stories, the problem is that he didn't make them funny.
You might want to retract nearly all of this after Hasan Minhaj's response to the New Yorker; where he shows receipts. I love you guys, but this is unchecked coat tail riding.
Will you now apologize for the false narrative that was being deliberately propagated towards him
Of course they won't. They'd need to have integrity to do, which they don't.
Next you'll tell me Larry the Cable Guy never worked in television repair.
My life is a lie 🤣💀
Hasan Smollet
Holdup Hasan is gay? Has anyone told his wife?
Can’t wait to see the new video 😂😂😂😂
You can’t lie about stuff like this. Now people who do experience discrimination will be thought to be liars
You guys should fact check a bit harder then you did on this story Cenk and Ana. I dont feel comfortable supporting someone as president who will be so quick to run with a story without hearing both sides of it. I support you currently but you guys need to redo this and show how Hassan isnt a liar and Clare Malone was really pushing a false narrative being totally unfair to Hassan.
Honestly, I expected more from Cenk and Ana than to blindly believe this article. Critical thinking and skepticism are very necessary when navigating through information. I think this is an isolated incident because they are almost always neutral imo.
@@MrRoelgg an isolated incident or not. They should retract their piece to vindicate Hassan
I just watched Minhaj's response to the NYer piece. You guys really need to either take this video down or put up a follow up stating that Minhaj responded.
This exactly
The most offensive part of this story is how unfunny and boring Hasan is.
You forgot 'smug'.
Lmao true
And on his show he addressed the crowd seriously sometimes and thats a problem
True that sucks it's very engaging but honestly is genuinuity
The brother Eric bit they are taking about was performed at a stand up comedy show. Obviously as a joke.
why haven't you guys deleted this video yet?
Deleting this video would be stupid. Should you just hide whenever you make an error? No what should happen is a update and a link on this video directing to the update.
Or insert a disclaimer at the beginning, would be even better. "We are embarrassed to ever have made this piece of pitiable journalism but we let it stay for documentary reasons".
@@cnj67 they didn't do the journalism.. They trusted the journalist who did the hit piece... An appolagu of some kind is deffinitely warranted. But what do you expect? Them to reach out to hasan and have him confirm or deny the story when it was first released?
If they had used that article to draw conclusions that it didn't posit like Tim pool does then yeah I get it. If they are just reporting on the article... Best you can do is a mea culpa
lol Kasparian’s Minhaj takes aging about as well as her “birthing person” meltdown
Emotional truth = Amber Heard truth
So basically, he got rejected by a girl and used his platform to get revenge on her like a loser. And he's unrepentant, basically going with 'she deserved it'.
He's just a misogynist.
no! he is using the race-victimhood card and islamophobia-card like all these radicals do.
Awwww i thouhgt you were better at journalism than this...😮
A lot of comedian's stories are made up or something that actually happened to a friend of theirs, but I feel the standards should be different when dealing with serious topics like this.
Plus the stories are jokes
What's funny about making people think you had an anthrax scare about your daughter
He lied so much in his Patriot Act series as well
Im confused? I watched his video on it and kind of explained everything and kinda had receipts?
Did this occur to you that New Yorker might not have the most accurate reporting either? 😀
Fact check your reporting before doing all the outrage on the third story
He is the literal definition of "fake it till you make it". F him.
Ho, this did not age well...
lol Minhaj just admitted to everything the New Yoker accused him of.
@@phantagirlablecontext.
He is more truthful than untruthful. Watch his response. This is beneath you. STOP IT!!!
his 3 main issues: he's a liar, he craves attention and he's not funny
i'd argue the main issue, him being not funny, resulted in the other issues.
those presidential roasts were good tho@@nonchablunt
Wait until she hears bert kreischer tell his "the machine" story.
is a story of fake opression to advance one's career?
@@Ryan-093 depending on how it's told it could totally be a story of oppression and dude.... idk if you know bert kreischer, that story IS his career.
70% feels like it's true, 30% feels like it feels like it's true.
That’s total incel victim blaming mentality, “different understanding of her rejection”?! That’s disgusting
Like this event happened in high school and he’s a forty year old man. His ego is of Walter white proportions. He created a different universe where she rejected him not cuz she can say “no” but cuz her dad is a member of the Aryan Brotherhood. A complete maniac
Louis CK: "I was in a bar the other night, it doesn't matter where, cuz I'm lying".
I very rarely expect that comedians' anecdotes are real. Kinda unfortunate to make this kind of thing up, but I'm not exactly shocked
The details made up to make it more comedic or funny is one thing. It is another to make yourself more of a victim. This is some Jussie Smollett shit. You cannot hide behind "this is comedy" disingeniously, you are hurting the people that you lied about and other honest comedians.
What a shame! It seems this piece of information is as misleading as the New Yorker's report. I will listen to Hasan, Seth, Stephen, and Jon to get the news instead of the so called "reporters" it seens that you are more interested on accountability for comedians then news reporters and politicians. Please interview the reporter that distorted Hasan's words. I want to see that story.
It's sad that we have to rely on comedians to get factual news nowadays.
It's comedy, not a documentary.
So why did people harass the woman from the prom story then? Clearly people on his side thought it was true, and he was the reason for that.
@@Dreikoo I don't know the prom story, or why anyone would be harassed. Still comedy. And if a comedian Saud something not true, Heather should not use a real person. That's worse than dumb.
@@k.o.johnson372 It's...referenced...in this video...did you not watch it with the sound on or something?
@@Dreikoo I stopped watching when they got stupid .... by pretending a stand up comedy routine is supposed to be true.
@@k.o.johnson372 Ok so you missed the part where it had real consequences for innocent people that were being lied about and had their real life photos put up as part of the lie.
Using her photo was wrong.
I can agree with that
Glad to see young Turks standing up against wokeness. I experienced real racism back in the 80’s but I never cried about it. Today I feel like race isn’t even an issue
Depends on where you live in Blue states it doesn't not really but go to Alabama 😢
I think now that proof has come out this story kinda shows how so many people who claim to question mainstream media are just as gullible as the people they talk about. You fell for a hit piece.
The lies are not the punchline. The lies are a fabrication of virtue
You mean he was lying when doing comedy!!! lol
He pulled a Smollett.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Where’s the apology video????
"Emotional truths" and "alternative facts" are blatant and flagrant lies. Minhaj has violated the trust of his audience. He is now damaged goods. What a disappointment.
With the amount of lies that Hasan Minhaj spouts, he is fast approaching the record of George Santos!
Did file a lawsuit for discrimination or defame anyone? Or did he just tell a funny story? (Comedy can be real situations or made up).
You must confess that "emotional truth" is the most original way to call a lie.
The problem is that Minaj did comedy like reporting on issues, just like John Oliver did. So did he lie in those segments? If so, that is just dishonest because people assume you are reporting on real issues.
🤨 I've always assumed that *COMEDIANS* be bullshitin' anyway. I ain't never actually *BELIEVED* these fools. Jesters. You take what they say with a grain of salt.
John Oliver and Jon Stewart are comedians ...
Did anyone read the actual story? He claimed these stories were true
If you make up stories to get a crowd involved, you're an entertainer. If you do it to get the law involved, you're the 'entertainer' Jussie Smollet.
“The FBI informant who did admit to working as an informant for the FBI did not actually go to my mosque.” What a nothing video.
wow. ive watched and respected TYT for a long time but it is gross and ridiculous that you took the word of a dying print media legacy magazine without fact checking with Hasan before recording and airing this. Its doubly disappointing this video has no addendum attached to it highlighting that you AND the sh**ty New Yorker were 1000% wrong and that it was a total hatchet job by a dying print magazine flailing desperately in its death throes for relevancy. im truely upset and ashamed of you for this.
Used to hear Hasan Minhaj Patriot Act i knew the guy was an over the top performer but if this is true it is disgraceful
@@DerekScottBland I Sincerely hope you are correct about this Minhaj was one of my favorite comedians, but it looks like Minhaj is on the same boat as Russell Brand who was accused of more Egregious actions.
Did ANYONE read the actual story? He claimed these stories were true in interviews. He ruined some woman’s life cuz she rejected him in HIGH SCHOOL. A complete maniac
Maybe tyt should do a better job informing their audience.
@@GEOMETRICINK a complete maniac. He’s also a rich kid (his parents are literal doctors) I’m so tired of hearing rich kids lecture me on the privileges. I
Always suspected this. My wife went to high school with Hasan, and said he was very popular and well liked by everyone. Of course you never know what’s going on behind the scenes, but that prom story always sounded fake to me.
You don't think Rodney Dangerfield's wife didn't respect him do you?
Next you're going to tell me that Steve Martin is not in fact a wild and crazy guy...
Well there goes my hope of having Hasan as the new Daily Show host!
Of course not
I think the problem here is that he's not funny. If these stories were made up to serve a funny joke then people wouldn't care.
If anyone else did this they’d be crucified everyone knows comedians lie about stories to make them more funny but they don’t lie about stuff to get sympathy he lied about his daughter literally getting anthrax 😅lol he’s a jussie smollet
Most importantly this is stand up. Dnt care if it's political comedy. It's comedy
Cenk: “Islamophobia got worse after 9/11 and Trump.”
His Muslim cousin: “The US deserved 911”
I mean, Hasan is a self-declared agnostic and not a practicing Muslim, but even if he was, care to explain the contradiction you seem so proud of discovering?
@@theMosen I’m assuming he’s trying to say that Muslims brought the Islamophobia on themselves without having to have some balls and actually say it outright.
@@ellis7622 Sure, my point is that still makes no sense. One Muslim saying that obviously wouldn't retroactively justify the wave of Islamophobia that happened 20 years ago. But Hasan saying it clearly didn't even have anything to do with him coming from a Muslim background, it had everything to do with him being an anti-American communist. The level of disingenuousness you would need to feel comfortable ignoring all of that and making this case is mindboggling. And no one on the right would call him out for it. The right have forsaken all honor and integrity at this point.
Hasan Smollett
It's okay to use a fake story to make others laugh... But its not okay to use a fake story to call others racists in between those jokes..
Seeing a lot of comments saying comedy doesn’t have to be true. Of course not, but when you’re outing real people, claiming the events really happened, and invoking real issues like racism, there’s an obvious line that’s been crossed.
Every comedian knows this. It’s not the same as saying you saw a baby selling crack at 3AM. If you don’t see that you’re intentionally not seeing it
What are you talking about? Comedians joke about racism and discrimination all the time. My favorite bits are when a comedian can embellish what sounds like a real story but make it funny. It’s relatable. The baby selling crack at 3am…not as relatable. Now Eric being an fbi informant infiltrating mosques. Funny. And that kind of thing was actually happening at the time. That brother Eric bit was performed during a live, stand up comedy show. It was obviously just a joke.
@@GEOMETRICINK you outlined your own cognitive dissonance better than I ever could. Let’s just leave it at that.
I'm glad TYT is covering this.
And for the people who keep saying he's just a comedian, his comedy is based on social commentary so it absolutely matters. Lying about his real life experiences is insane.
Also lying that you thought your four year old daughter was gonna die..how is that a joke? Who would lie about that?
Dave Chappelle lies all the time in his comedy, should TYT cover Dave Chappelle too?
I suppose many comedians adopt a Persona when they're on stage. They're not really talking about their personal life 100%
Dave chappelle does this well, Louis ck , cris rock…
THEY DONT USE NAMES
And you can tell when Chapelle is being serious, and he does seem honest about the serious parts. You can tell the jokes apart from that, too.
tyt helped create this atmosphere where celebs know that lying about this stuff is good for their career
How so?
I have great radar. you can tell that guy was lying. for one , we all dont have so many black swan events in our life.
Part of the problem is needless specificity. A fiction “inspired by a true story” can file off the serial numbers enough not to implicate real people. Invented substitute details can both help throw off the trail _and_ bring touches that make it more effective comedy.
If you watch in-context how Minaj delivered these fabricated bits -- they were not as jokes, but when he would turn serious and the whole audience would be quiet because of the magnitude of the horrible incidents he claimed happened to him personally. During these segments, he would even choke up and get teary-eyed. These moments were not delivered as jokes, but as heartfelt personal experiences that shook him to the core. To now find out that he was being disingenuous at best, and outright lying at worse with this "emotional" material is what I think most people are giving him flak for. Dave Chappelle has -- in the midst of his standup specials -- taken serious turns in his delivery to address real, heartfelt racial issues that were not meant as jokes. Like with George Floyd, for instance. Now in the midst of trying to have a serious discourse on George Floyd during one of his standup specials, and the racial crisis in America today -- if Dave had brought up a personal incident where he, too, had experienced police brutality and almost died at the hands of a white cop... and as he recounts this, you see him getting teary-eyed and choked up... if it were to then come out a year later that he made up the whole thing, would you say: "Oh, he's a comedian and you can't believe anything a comedian is saying is true!"? I mean, maybe if it were meant as a joke you could claim that. But when the person was being dead serious and making it seem that they and their family were truly scarred by the incident in question... at which point does the comedian become simply an a--hole liar?
Loads of comedians borrow others trauma and drama for a joke, looks like you took that shit too seriously forgetting he was a comedian. Sorry about your gullibility bro.
Lmao
Your triggered racist rage outs you as to what you and your agenda is.
There's more nuance to the facts about how and why he lied. Looking at it as a comedian just being a comedian is a bit disingenuous. But, I tend to think ALL comedians and media personalities are at the very least exaggerating or stretching the truth. I never can take them or their work as literal works, no matter how the personality presents the content. When your content affects real people, then you have crossed a line. Performance art like comedy shouldn't be used like that. But if you put such emotional stock into that person's perspective based on their content, that's on you. People bring their own bias into any content they consume. Learn to be skeptical or to scrutinize what you're consuming.
I completely disagree. I loved Patriot Act. Probably seen every episode. He delivered the entire show in a traditional stand up comedy format. To me it was clear his stories were pure comedy.
@@GEOMETRICINK Well, they’re specifically conversing here about his Netflix standup special from last year - “The King’s Jester.” Not about The Patriot Act… which was indeed very good. But in King’s Jester, Minaj gets personal and emotional… in a way that’s not always comedic. If it were, the audience would laugh when he tells the story about how his daughter had to be rushed to the hospital because of possible anthrax poisoning… but they were seriously quiet because it was clear that he was not being a comedian in that instance, but rather a father afraid for his child. Now it turns out he made up that whole incident (among others). So, ummm….
One of the worst humans on the planet. A guy willing to tear us all apart, using false claims of bigotry, in service of his OWN PERSONAL advancement, and to hurt people he knew, who he must have known would face targeting/attacks. Disgusting.
He sucks, but you probably support Trump.
Minority comedians can't believe how easy they have it in New York and LA. Ronny Chieng is the same. He knows that as long as he follows a certain set of rules, he is golden. You only need to look at the 'forgiving' comments below to know that demand will always outstrip supply. TYT bang on about this one.
I respect TYT so you should also redo this story Ana. He just showed receipts and all his experiences were real. Only a few minor details were changed.
People saying "he's a comedian, he's not supposed to be accurate", you're missing the point. There are other comedians who tell outlandish story but in a way where it's clear that it's not meant to be taken as the gospel truth. Like Dave Chappelle's joke about the baby on the side of the street that tried to sell him crack. It was wild enough that any reasonable person would assume it was not meant to be taken as fact.
That's different from completely fabricating a story and passing it off as factual anecdotes for the purpose of your bit especially when you're referencing real people.
It's hate crime hoaxing. Hasan Smollett.
you have a point BUT Chapelle also pushed the urban black experience that he didn't have, he was from the suburbs, both his parents were University professors and activists. You could argue that in many ways, Chapelle in both his early comedy bits and parts he played in movies was the white stereotype of blacks at that time. That is just as deceptive. I don't expect any comic's stories to be real by the way. I love Louis Ck, love a lot of different comics, I want to laugh and maybe think about important subjects.
@@americanpancakelive It's deceptive but it doesn't hurt anyone. Hasan Minaj literally invented hate crimes to advance his career. He threw gas into the fire of an already explosive subject and stoked even more resentment or racism towards white people. And the only point of those stories was so he could make himself look good. Sociopathic and narcissistic behavior.
@@americanpancakelive not true about Chappelle pushing urban experiences he didn't have. He was always very clear that he was as "hard" as the other black folks and his Mom steered him away from all of that. He has never once claimed to be from lesser means in any of his stand ups.
Something smells like Juicy.
To all the geniuses in the comments justifying this because “hE’s A cOmEdIaN gUiSe!”, that’s fine. Now justify all the interviews he did where he tells the EXACT same stories, without any comedic elements at all, as if they were completely true.
We don’t even have to get into the poor girl that he unintentionally doxxed and got harassed for years. You know you guys don’t always have to take the opposite position that you think conservatives are going to take, right?
Great point. I didn't know he had done that. Not only does that strip away the "It's just a comedic show" excuse, it also means that he had occasions to note publicly that elements of his stories were fictional.
Thank you! Just cuz Ben "Can't satisfy my wife" Shapiro is making fun on this bozo doesn't mean you have to defend him.
That's the real problem, most people in comment sections are reactionary idiots.
@@shanemac1646 , right, let's not be like MAGAts and defend everything that a member of our socio-political tribe does.
@@blairmcian God, I hate that! They are defending Boobert now, claiming she did nothing wrong. Yea, it's her personal life; go for it, girl. But if AOC did even a FRACTION of what Lauren we would never hear the end of it.
He is a comedian. It was told in a comedy special. Anyone who watches a comedy special and thinks its all true stories doesnt know what comedy is. The people who believed everything he was saying and than went after a person told in a fictional comedy special. I dont understand why this is even a story, comedians lie to make you laugh.
Not even remotely the same, go take a logic class.
You hit the nail on the head. You don't understand.
You wanna apologize now? The bonus episode does not cut it.
I never question a comedians joke credibility
Exactly. Just make me laugh. That's it.
So he basically spread lies about a girl who turned him down in college. Real classy
Smh, ya should have done better journalism. Do your own fact check. Don't follow other people investigate journalism.
lol Minhaj just admitted to everything the New Yoker accused him of.
What are u talking about@@phantagirlable
@@malemnganbiayekpam6789 The New Yoker accused him of making up parts of his stories and he just admitted to it and apologized for it. lol
@@phantagirlable yes there were parts that were not true but don't tell me you watch comedy specials thinking everything is true? if you do, i guess you are lacking the ability to critically think. I don't think he needs to apologise for it. Comedians embellish for comedic impact. The New Yorker took his words out of context and was deliberately misleading. For an article about fact checking, you would expect it to be true right? It sounds like it was just a hit piece
@@phantagirlablehow he admitted to anything? He came with receipts stating that the New Yorker stories were totally false… are u ok?
It’s weird, I always judged Hasan to be a shitty person immediately and I was right again. I gotta say my gut has a quite high batting average.
Can you pinpoint why you felt that way? I ask because I always had the opposite impression and find these lies disappointing.
@bencerwinske1616 it's because he was always incredibly smug in his victimhood. You could see it in the way he delighted in berating Ellen for mispronouncing his name. He is smug and cocky, in gross disproportion to his actual talent. It would be annoying regardless, but nobody likes an egotist who can't self-assess.
The least they can do is pronounce his last name right
this type of lying reminds me of when the book night and the author got exposed by historians of lying..... there is nothing wrong with writing novels or making jokes that didnt actually happen but lying for years about it is a different level of lying ...... DONT LIE YOU WILL BE EVENTUALLY CAUGHT!