It’s mainly fiction. Former Patriot Act host and The Daily Show alum Hasan Minhaj is acknowledging that many of the stories he has told in his comedy specials are fabricated. “Every story in …
Minhaj relayed a story about threats he received followingsegments on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi and Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalism. In the special, he tells the story of a letter sent to his home which was filled with white powder, which accidentally spilled onto his young daughter. Believing the powder was anthrax, the child was rushed to the hospital, and the powder turned out not to be anthrax.
During the interview, Minhaj admitted that his daughter had never been exposed to a white powder, and that she hadn’t been hospitalized. He said he had opened up a letter delivered to his apartment that contained some sort of powder and he joked to his wife, saying, “Holy shit. What if this was anthrax?”about an FBI informant who infiltrated his family’s mosque in the Sacramento area in 2002 when Minhaj was a junior in high school.
While admitting the stories were fiction, Minhaj said they were based on “emotional truth,” adding “The punch line is worth the fictionalized premise.”
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