Hasan Minhaj’s diasporic comedy

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🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Today on Post Reports, we talk to Hasan Minhaj about how he uses comedy to “make people’s world bigger.”

Hasan Minhaj has worked as a comedian for 17 years. You might know him from “The Daily Show,” the 2017 White House correspondents’ dinner, or his Netflix show, “Patriot Act.”

On today’s episode of Post Reports, producer Linah Mohammad talks to Minhaj about representation in film and television, their relationship to Islam and what it means to be a diasporic voice in the comedy world.

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0:00.0	Can you tell me a little bit about like the room that you're in right now?
0:05.1	The room on it.
0:06.8	I am in our master bedroom.
0:10.3	And is it like carpeted?
0:12.0	Yeah, I'm sitting on a carpet.
0:14.2	Yeah.
0:15.2	Do you want to see it?
0:16.2	It's okay.
0:17.2	I don't want to see it.
0:18.2	I was just checking like the acoustics of the room.
0:21.2	Got it.
0:22.2	Got it.
0:23.2	Yesterday, we brought you a conversation with the actor, Jason Smith Cameron, because she
0:30.8	and her character, Jerry Ants, have session brought us so much joy this year.
0:34.9	Today, we have another interview with someone who we found ourselves totally obsessed with
0:39.9	this year.
0:40.9	Hussin Minhaj.
0:42.4	Hussin is a comedian.
0:44.6	And by the way, a lot of people call him Hassan Minhaj, but that is not actually how he
0:50.1	pronounces his name.
0:52.0	He might know Hassan from one of his first big gigs as a correspondent on the Daily Show
0:55.8	with Don Stewart.
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