Comedian Hasan Minhaj lied about being oppressed and a victim of white racism and anti-Muslim discrimination.
While Minhaj’s standup acts involve “harrowing stories of law-enforcement entrapment and personal threats,” as The New Yorker reported, his stories have not been confirmed to be true.
Meeting with a reporter from The New Yorker, Minhaj said, “Every story in my style is built around a seed of truth.”
He added, “My comedy Arnold Palmer is seventy percent emotional truth—this happened—and then thirty percent hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction.”
In sharing the fabricated story about being a victim of anti-Muslim discrimination after 9/11, Minhaj explained that an FBI informant came to his mosque and gained the trust of Minhaj’s community, although the comedian said he could see through Brother Eric, the FBI informant.
As Minhaj said he wanted to get his pilot’s license, the police arrived and Minhaj was held against the hood of a car.
The reporter from The New Yorker interviewed the man behind the character of “Brother Eric,” who said, “I have no idea why he would do that,” discussing the story’s fabrication.
Minhaj’s comedy specials also included a story where his daughter was rushed to the hospital after inhaling what was believed to be anthrax after a suspicious letter arrived at his house.
The comedian’s daughter had neither been hospitalized nor exposed to a white powder.
Reporting from Information Liberation:
Taking this story in its totality, it unironically encapsulates the "immigrant experience" in America. Minhaj was given a life the average immigrant from the Third World could only dream of and rather than show appreciation for our people and our country he made up fake stories about how we "oppressed" him for his personal benefit and showed us nothing but contempt.
