Hasan Minhaj

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Comedian Hasan Minhaj got his big break when he became a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart at the helm. Since then he's had an award-winning series along with stand-up specials on Netflix. Minhaj and Willie Geist got together in New York for a "Sunday Sitdown."

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.
0:05.3	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:08.6	I have a great conversation for you today and a very special one because it's more than
0:13.6	two and a half years in the making.
0:16.2	My guest is comedian and actor Hassan Minhash.
0:19.6	Here's the backstory.
0:21.4	We had Hassan booked on Sunday today for a shoot on March 13th, 2020, if that date rings
0:29.4	a bell to any of you.
0:31.0	It was the day that COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic and effectively the world shut
0:36.6	down.
0:37.6	Believe it or not, the day before on March 12th, we were sort of negotiating.
0:41.4	Should we do it?
0:42.4	Can we pull it off?
0:43.4	There were some texts and emails back and forth.
0:46.2	And ultimately we decided mutually, you know what?
0:48.4	Let's just put this on pause and we'll do it in two weeks.
0:51.6	Ha!
0:52.6	Two and a half years later we finally got together.
0:55.0	Hassan and I met up finally at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City's West Village,
1:00.4	which is a tiny theater but a legendary one where he began to sort of workshop his comedy
1:05.8	and this show that would become his first Netflix special called Homecoming King that came
1:11.1	out back in 2017.
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