Death, Sex & Money - Hasan Minhaj's Honest Mistakes
Death, Sex & Money
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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Hasan Minhaj was drawn to comedy because of its "radical honesty." But that hasn't always translated well to his personal life.Â
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| 0:00.0 | You know how like when you're growing up they always teach you. You know, the best rule of thumb is to always tell the truth. Is it? I mean, is it? |
| 0:12.2 | This is death, sex, and money. I would never kill somebody unless they pissed me off. The show from WNYYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:21.9 | We split the money, 50, 50, and need to talk about more. |
| 0:26.1 | Money joking, I love you, mommy. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm on a sale. |
| 0:32.5 | In the spring of 2018, comedian Hassan Minhaj became a dad. |
| 0:38.0 | It's been the most beautiful and horrific thing that's ever happened to me in my life. |
| 0:45.5 | I'm being real. |
| 0:46.8 | Like, it's a doozy. |
| 0:50.0 | It is a doozy. |
| 0:51.8 | When his daughter was born, Hassan was working as a correspondent for The Daily Show. |
| 0:55.9 | He'd recently won a Peabody Award for his stand-up special Homecoming King, |
| 0:59.9 | and he was in the thick of developing his weekly political TV show for Netflix called Patriot Act. |
| 1:05.9 | Hassan's wife, Bina, a Ph.D. in public health, also has a demanding career. |
| 1:10.8 | So it's felt like a lot to manage all at once. |
| 1:13.6 | That's been the biggest sort of like push and pull of it. We got to divide and conquer. All right. Like you sleep this time. I'll pick up this. All right. Swap it out. I'll sleep. Now you cover this. Just like the strategizing. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah. The logistics. Just logistics. Yeah. And I've never been really great at them. And so I've just had to level up, you know. And I don't know, I'm amazed. I'm just like amazed by like even I think about what my parents had to do and the resources they had and |
| 1:46.0 | how they were able to figure it out. And I've seen like this whole new side of my parents, |
| 1:50.7 | which is wild. It's so strange seeing them. Like I see my dad sprint. I've never seen my dad's |
| 1:56.1 | sprint. He like got up and like ran to get my, my daughter just ran out of the apartment and ran down the hallway. |
| 2:02.5 | And he just got up and sprung. |
| 2:03.3 | I've never seen my dad sprint like that. |
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