Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the emotional truth?

No, I'm just your monkey.

Hi, I'm Scott Ah, with Stephen Green and Bill Whittle.

And this episode of Right Angles brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.

Gentlemen, I kind of collapsed a couple of ideas into that lead-in sentence to tell you about our friend, Hassan Minaj.

Hassan Minaj, the comedian that you probably know from the Comedy Channel Daily Show,

apparently is just revealed to the New Yorker that despite what he says during his shows

and comedy tours, when he's talking seriously, not telling jokes. He, in fact, did not get stood up

at the door of a white girl who was supposed to go to the homecoming dance with him. He also,

his daughter did not open an envelope that suddenly sprinkled white powder on her. He was not threatened at the Saudi embassy,

nor did he watch Jared Kushner sit in a chair reserved for an imprisoned Saudi activist. All of

these things he tells as if they were fact in his shows, none of these things actually happened.

And this is the reasoning that Hassan Minaj uses. He says, every story in my life is built around a seed of truth. My comedy, Arnold Palmer,

you know, like the drink. My comedy, Arnold Palmer, is 70% emotional truth, and then 30% hyperbole, exaggeration, and fiction.

Stephen Green, it's clear when he tells these stories that he is doing it to portray the difficulties of being a person of color or being a

Muslim in this country and that he has to be afraid and he lives this life that's different

than the, you know, you and I would understand. And yet, now he's saying that basically the

stories are emotionally true, but not literally true.

By the way, the girl was contacted later said that actually she and Hassan were close friends and that she had turned him down to go to that dance days before the dance ever happened.

He didn't show up on her porch. And she, as a result of

that, Steve, has because he has not been very careful in concealing her identity and, in fact,

posted a picture of her and someone else online. She has faced online threats and doxing for years

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