Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why am I. In case you missed it,

Slates Podcasts about Internet Culture. And today, as the great philosopher Jason Derulo once said,

I'm writing solo.

Candis is continuing her investigation to the Bath and Body Works Lobby,

Candis, we salute you in your steadfast efforts, braver than the troops.

But never fear, dear listeners, you do not have to listen to me monologue for 45 minutes straight just because Candace is gone.

Later in the show we'll be bringing on I see

why am I faves and slate staff writers Nadera Goff and a Tishpawa. We don't

actually need an excuse to have them both on because this is my show. But we do actually have a reason for this particular meeting of the minds, which is that both Nadera and Nettish wrote about a figure who has recently been the subject of a whole lot of discussion and that figure is Hassan Manage.

For those of y'all who are blessed enough to have missed out on the past month of discourse,

Hassan Manage has been at the center of a conversation around ethics and truth and comedy that was launched by a September 15th New Yorker article

titled Hassan Manage's Emotional Truths.

In this article written by New Yorker staff writer Claire Malone, we are basically taken through

a series of stories that Manage has told over the past five years in his stand-up specials and on the Patriot Act that turned out either to be completely

fabricated or where details were alighted in the service of what Manage calls the quote emotional truth.

About a month later on October 26, Manage responded with a 21 minute video titled My Response to the New Yorker article that provides

additional contacts for some of the fabrications that the New Yorker alleges that he made.

Claire Malone then posted a statement to Twitter the same day

that basically says we stand by our story.

In short, it looks like a bit of a mess.

Now, I want to start out by saying that none of us expect comedians to be in the business of telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I doubt anyone is ever going to be out there fact-checking

David Sedaris for accuracy. But both the New Yorker article and Manage's response raised some pretty important questions about the genre of infotainment that

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