As a New Yorker article finds seemingly untrue details in anecdotes told as part of his comedy routine, Minhaj claims, 'All my standup stories are based on events that happened to me. But I use the tools of standup comedy — hyperbole, changing names and locations, and compressing timelines to tell entertaining stories.'
finds that some of the details in his onstage anecdotes, like those featured in his Netflix stand-up specials, may have been made up.found didn’t necessarily play out as he presented them include jokes involving one of his children and their possible exposure to anthrax and an alleged interaction with police and an FBI informant at his family’s mosque when he was a teen.
story, Minhaj said, “All my standup stories are based on events that happened to me. Yes, I was rejected from going to prom because of my race. Yes, a letter with powder was sent to my apartment that almost harmed my daughter. Yes, I had an interaction with law enforcement during the war on terror. Yes, I had varicocele repair surgery, so we could get pregnant. Yes, I roasted Jared Kushner to his face.
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