stand-up comedy in the pecking order, you know, you got your actors and your musicians,

you have your magicians and your clowns. Stand-up comedy somewhere between magicians and

clowns. That's where I kind of place this. Between clown and magician. So somewhere

between David Copperfield and Bozo, there's a comedian.

It's Hassaminesh.

Every single one of us has a teacher or a coach or someone who saw something in us when

we were younger and took us under their wing. We are who we are in part

because of that person. Now imagine if that discovery, that talent that you learn from that person

can actually create an entire career. That's exactly what happened with Hassan Minaj. He went on to have a wildly successful

career in comedy, including being on the Daily Show and host of the Patriot Act. But it was actually

his teacher back in high school who saw something in him and imagine, just imagine, if all of us could find that thing and run with it.

This is a bit of optimism.

Oh, and a quick aside, my apologies in advance to Todd.

I'm always curious about people's origin stories.

Like, how you found yourself on a path of comedian.

Okay. What is my X-Men origin story? Okay. I grew up in Davis, California, which is a smallish town next to Sacramento, California, not to brag.

Northern California is kind of the, I would say,

the forgotten area of California that I represent very hard, but I went to a public school.

I went to Davis Senior High School. I was a energetic but talkative student that had trouble focusing and paying attention, completing tasks, arriving to things that I

needed to get to on time, which I still struggle with to this day. But I had a teacher. Her name is

Ms. Takuchi, and she was the computer's teacher. I mean, this is dating me. We literally had a thing

called computers class where you would take Mavis Beacon typing, and you would learn C++ as a program

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