Hasan Minhaj released a video statement regarding the ‘needlessly misleading’ allegations that he fabricated stories in his stand-up routine
Hasan Minhaj is doubling down on the defense of his stand-up routine after being accused of fabricating stories from his past.
Earlier this year, Minhaj’s comedy was the focus of a New Yorker investigation. A reporter allegedly found inaccuracies in several of Minhaj’s claims, including a story from his first Netflix special, Homecoming King, that alleged that a white girl rejected his prom invitation due to race. Minhaj then launched into a “tedious” deep-dive of the evidence that he, in part, told the truth and claimed that the New Yorker supposedly ignored those pieces ahead of publication. In the comedy special, Minhaj quipped that would-be date Bethany was barred from going to the school dance with a “brown boy” by her mom — on the night of prom — so their family wouldn’t see photos of the two teens.“Bethany’s mom really did say that — it was just a few days before prom.
The Daily Show alum also mentioned two additional stories from his comedy routine that had been called into question by the New Yorker. Minhaj did admit on Thursday that he embellished stories about being harassed by law enforcement that was surveilling his family’s mosque and when he took his daughter — whom he shares with wife Beena Patel, along with a son — to a hospital for alleged anthrax exposure.
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