#237: Hasan Minhaj

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal we welcome host of the Netflix series Patriot Act, Hasan Minhaj, to the Upper West Side! Hasan discusses growing up in Davis, California, a kid into basketball and rap, how he flourished on his high school debate team and found performative similarities to stand-up comedy, his decision to not attend his dream college, the nights he snuck out of his parents' house to do open mic nights, and how his dad ultimately found out. We discuss winning stand-up competitions in the Bay, moving to Los Angeles and experiencing the dark years of fighting to find his voice and his place, living off of small acting parts and TV commercials, and starting a video series that caught the eyes of producers from The Daily Show. Hasan details his Daily Show audition, his field pieces across the United States, what it was like having Jon Stewart as a boss, and what it was like when Jon broke the news to the correspondents that he was leaving the program. We talk about the extremely well-received special he did in his hometown, the best phone call he received after hosting the White House Correspondents Dinner, making a home in New York City, his admiration of Trevor Noah, the emotion surrounding his own departure from The Daily Show, and his experiences in hosting his own program on Netflix. All that, plus Jerry Seinfeld, Benjamin Kickz, Samantha Bee, Saudi Arabia, Sneaker Shopping, Michael Jordan, Steve Kerr and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Jeff.
0:00.6	Hey, Eric.
0:01.2	How are you?
0:02.9	Good.
0:03.5	How are you?
0:04.4	I'm doing well, thank you.
0:06.1	I threw you off.
0:07.1	You threw me off.
0:08.0	Yeah.
0:08.3	Jeff, as you know, as many people out there know, we have been on the search for a new apartment because our apartment building where we lived for the last 11 years was sold and bought and the new owners were like, hey,
0:23.6	get out.
0:24.6	Get out.
0:25.6	So we have had this sort of guillotine hanging over our heads for the last couple of months
0:31.6	and real estate in New York doesn't move into the last minute, so we did not literally move
0:36.6	into the last minute. We are still literally move into the last minute we are
0:37.9	still in our old apartment we are still looking for new places we have looked
0:42.1	all over and the most hilarious thing to me is that podcasting in our own home
0:48.0	has become sort of like second nature it's just like okay cool yes two o'clock on
0:52.3	this Tuesday come over with your team come through the doormen
0:55.8	know it they sit down we do the interview for an hour and a half some people hang out some people
0:59.9	leave you take a picture outside and that's it yeah easy enough now i feel like every place we go into
1:05.5	it's like we should basically be bringing jim jones and like the migos and LMA and whoever with us as we look at
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