The fact that a comedian is being scrutinized for not telling a story EXACTLY how it happened when there are literal politicians just confidently lying about facts is just absurd to me.
exactly, nitpick on the comedian but bend over backwards to allocate time for politicians to straight up lie and call it showing both sides of an argument. The nerve of these people!
This comment should be the top pinned reply. I wish I could give you a standing applause. How people can take a comedian seriously during an act is mind blowing. Stay Safe and Be Well.
You're an actual moron if you think that's the issue. Comedians make things up all the time for stand-up, but Hasan Minhaj is an activist first, comedian second. He tried to pass off flat-out lies, one of them bordering on harassing to a woman he smeared as racist despite being married to an Indian man, to become successful. Hasan Minhaj is a fraud and any idiots still giving money to him should be mocked just like Jussie Smollett.
For anyone who doesn’t know, The New Yorker has responded to this video. They said: we stand by the story It’s like they feel absolutely NO SHAME making biased reports and destroying someone’s reputation. They will not apologise because they don’t know what accountability is. What a disgrace.
@@TheYungManProjecthe lied about being rejected on the girl’s doorstep, on the night of prom, after telling the audiences she said yes. And totally passed it off as true. Exactly how is that not lying 😆
@@vitamindealer7915 did you even watch this video? he has tonnes of evidence showing the validity of the core of his story. So what if he dramatized it on a doorstep, for a brief comedy show? It's like pointing out he asserted it occurred on a wednesday instead of a tuesday, and therefore the whole story is false, even though every other detail is shown to be accurate? Cherrypicking details and stitching them into a new narrative doesn't prove your point, it makes you the liar, or an idiot.
@@mrlugh he is saying he went to her house after she said yes, and got rejected by her parents, and she had a white date, and just kind of went with it. Can you tell me play by play what really happened and what did not?
Thank you for calling out the New Yorker for crap journalism while also admitting your own mistakes. It sucks to be falsely accused and have your words twisted around. Well done.
Wait until they find out Chapelle, Burr and every comedian exaggerate in their stand up specials...even make non-political correct jokes. You're telling me Bobby Lee didn't actually get molested by a kid with down syndrome for three months straight?? These journalists and the current climate of political correctness will be the death of comedy.
I mean, according to some reports, it was successful, according to multiple reports, he was supposed to get the gig but the article made them rethink. And I don't even fault the viacom executives for that one, given the article that move is understandable.
I love how nobody cares that the most racist part of the whole story is *still true,* but he just wasn’t on her doorstep when it happened. 🙄 Hasan nailed this response, but I feel terrible for him for having to go through this.
@@Lepidopterous. That's like a common story... happens to a lot of people...that's why its believable and a perfect story to tell because people can relate
Watched 2 minutes of this video then shut it off. You don''t owe anybody an explanation bro. You're a comedian who tells funny stories. Whatever you gotta do to create those stories is your artistic license.
You probably should’ve watched it lol. New yorker basically shows how morally corrupt they are to slander someone for news headlines. Straight up psychotic behavior
Your right but I think it is worth watching the whole recording just to see the evil of the media and how instead of giving unbiased true story's they manipulate and lie on things that although have no importance in the world can ruin those involved. The short reply's from the journalist alone say a thousand words.
@@spaceforce-girlforcejjwest2048 His ability to communicate and his personal life is not a requirement. Comedy does not have to be true, but it should be funny.
Which facts did the New Yorker get wrong? Seems there are objections that things were “taken out of context” but I don’t see anything that’s been proven false about the article.
The fact that Clare Malone (the author of the hit piece) insinuated that Hasan owed the FBI agent a "heads up", even though his job was to entrap innocent Muslims without any heads up, is both hilariously ironic and outrageous.
Because dont you people realize!!! Americans hate Muslims!! and brown people like the fact we are sitting here still having this discussion despite what happened after 9/11 and what is happening now with Israel attacking Palestinians lmfao like they literally do not see us as humans ofc theyre going to be happy to attack and ruin the career of a muslim brown man. Hasan nearly secured a bag (daily show) and some evil rat ruined it for him. Not everything is race thing or whatever but THIS IS and it is so evident. Moreso people hate Muslims with an intense rage that theyre willing to wipe out Gaza and no nation is criticizing them for it.
Clare Malone can't be spreading disinformation like this. I read one of her Trump articles and I wonder what else she has lied about Trump. She should be put in jail for election-meddling yes.
@@epicfailure210 so, she's a racist because she accused him of faking racism? What a stretch. As a black man, I do not appreciate people who cosplay at racism. If it's fake, it had to be clear. Dave chapelle story of him calling the cops and the cops coming and screaming " there is still a n___ in the house" and " why did he put picture of himself and his family on the wall?", is funny obviously fake but still deliver a message about racism.
I think I respect him even more. Honestly prior to this “exposé” any reasonable person would expect, and even require, that his standup should be loosely based in reality to not only protect those he talks about, but to enhance the clarity of complicated stories without rambling. He is a comedian doing standup, it is his job to not loose the audience and to evoke laughter. The fact that he is actually as close to reality as he is without endangering his former gf/family is actually super impressive. He’s consistently above and beyond in logic and emotional sway for his genre. If anything the article should have been about how other comedians could take notes.
Thank you for being open and honest not only now but throughout your career! You are someone that I really do look up to. Your acceptance of faults and still standing up for yourself at the same time is inspiring! ❤
Just watched this on the HR article. The Bethany part is insane. The New Yorker reporter should be ashamed of herself. She had the emails and evidence, yet chose to selectively publish what suited her agenda. Wonder if the reporter will ever be held accountable?
Reporters never give minorities fair coverage. Look into how trans people get reported on. Nothing is listened to. It’s just so much bullshit and smearing
The reporter might just say that their article is based on their own" emotional truth", and the "factual truth is secondary". They've already shown a lack of respect for what Hasan is saying, why wouldn't they steal his own words and diminish them even further?
Kicking a brown man out of the race for The Daily Show host job was the objective. Someone talked to Claire Malone before she "developed" interest in Hasan Minhaj's comedy.
Explaining a joke is the worst thing you can do as a comedian. Bro, I don't know why people are upset, I think reporters think of you as a News Host and not a comedian. We love you and God bless your family.
whats the joke again? hes admitting that he changed his stories to increase his standing as a victim, that was the original criticism. everyone knows comedians bend the truth to make things funnier, thats not what he did. funny how it took him so long to come back with these receipts since he was telling the truth the whole time. you would have thought he would have been able to make a response in a couple of days. his pr team went into damage control
As a lifetime New Yorker reader, I’m horrified that this happened. And as a comedy lover, it never occurred to me that comedy needed to be literal truth. That’s not how storytelling works! Sincerely hope the very-talented Hasan Minhaj’s reputation and career fully recover.
My immediate thought is of Nick Swardson trying to express that not everything said on stage is true by acting out telling a cheetah to sit to showcase how ridiculous some of the premises he uses are. All to stop people from believing he feeds his cat diarrhea
What's really deceitful about the article is the excerpts that are highlighted in the subtitle and inserts - A reader takes these as accurate encapsulations of the content but instead they are hyperbolic distortions of the details in the story. Defenders of the story point to sections of the story that can be claimed to be more nuanced but what is highlighted is not.
Sorry I’m late to comment on this video but I recently dropped a bag on anthrax on my baby. Also you claimed the parents said they couldn’t have you come over cause they were taking family photos. Then in the audio recording you admit that it was basically a vibe of racism. Then to bolster your claim you showed an email in which this lady said her parents had grown. She probably said that cause you told her that her parents said you weren’t allowed in because you were Indian when in fact it’s because you got the vibe they were racist. lol you didn’t disprove anything. It’s probably another lie. Why would you show up to a girls house who don’t date and get mad when they say they are busy doing family photos?!!! Weird also one last thing. Yo don’t pretend your Indian parents would be cool with you dating some other than Indian. lol your proof is “oh well I felt someway about being able to interrupt a family event so it must be cause I’m black *cough cough* I mean brown but i pretend to be black cause I like hippy-hop and I’m a total sneakerhead y’all feel me?” Dude even if the story about the parents is true which why would I believe you? It’s literally a he said/she said situation and I’m sure that girl feels sorry if that did happen but just cause you sent a couple of friendly emails. What do you expect for her to hold a grudge and call you a lair? She more or less says thanks for the email, hope all is well. Also show the dates in which those email were sent before or after the article… Sorry I got to go I was held up at gun point by a cop for playing basketball, y’all know how it be.
You can pretty much hear it in the reporters voice that she was about to perform a hit. “We can provide you with the proof.” “Mhm” “I can send it to you.” “Yeah.” “We’ll make sure you get it.” “Sure.”
right? her vocal tone seemed so fucking dismissive. "and it just destroyed me." "yeah, sure. that's understandable." so unsympathetic, impersonal, not even "i understand." but her tone just says "whatever".
That’s honestly what kind pissed me off more. It just feel so gross. How do you even live yourself being this purposefully manipulative and calling yourself a journalist?
You don't need to say Sorry. You are one of a few smart and genuine comedians. Please stay strong and just be yourself. Sorry you have to go through crap.
I've never gone to a comedy show expecting everything to be true, I go to be entertained, You don't owe me or anybody an apology. your job is to make us laugh; and if you throw in some uncomfotable truths even better. If they don't get it that's their loss, not yours.. Part of being a good comedian is being sensitive to people, but sometimes you need to tell them to F#%k off. Keep doing what you do and and thanks for making us laugh. Remember no good deed goes unpunished, and you can't please everyone.
As an Indian woman, this is the flavor of racism we deal with. Nit-picking, gaslighting to have us meeting unfairly high standards, needing to remain very calm as we lay down rational receipts of facts. I am the first woman in my family to leave the Indian community and work/go to school/live primarily around other races, and this has been the experience. Hasan's response feels simultaneously familiar and a masterclass on how to improve my responses the next time it happens with me.
@@jackkentner158 she's saying this is the exact type of actions & type of behaviors that she's witnessed being taken out on her before & that the Muslim community is, unfortunately all too familiar with. Def racism.
@@trueXMotionFitness You're both elevating a verified liar who is using a community as a shield to make millions of dollars. 1). The FBI informant story where he claims to have suffered police brutality never happened because the informant was IN PRISON at the time Hasan said the story happened and wasn't even an informant yet. 2). The toxic white powder falling on his kid is obviously a lie as it was never reported, and the NYC terrorism unit never investigated it. 3). The white woman whose name he publicly smeared for being racist, is MARRIED to and Indian man. He just wanted to get back at her for rejecting his offer to take her to the prom. Newsflash: Saying that your story contains some "emotional truths" means that it is still a goddamn lie, lies in which he directly benefited from. Unless you think people who use tactics like Jussie Smollett to get famous, we should not be elevating a person like this.
nah... not even... this is what happens when a "journalist" can print whatever the f*ck they want and they know nothing will happen to them... those are 2 different things...
@@kennethalpizar32I agree. I have to wonder if there is something more nefarious going on? To willfully ignore facts....I wonder if she was paid off to do this? He seems to have plenty of enemies
Thank you for standing up to slanted journalism! I have always thoroughly enjoyed your show. I never stopped and questioned the details of what you were saying, but I always understood that there was an underlying truth. I, too, want America to grow in love and embrace the diversity that makes us who we are.
I remember seeing some of these articles popping up and it felt like such a joke every time, it was hilarious and sad to skim through. I love your work man, it never mattered whether or not it was based on real events, it was still worth telling.
I find it strange they’re fact-checking comedy shows and disturbing that they chose the topic of racism to gaslight. Thank you for sharing this story. I hope you continue to share your experiences and give voice to important topics.
Help us expose them: Clearly Hasan was targeted because he is brown and Muslim. They don’t want him to be part of the Daily show other than a side act. The Daily show and the New Yorker is predominantly filled with Zionists.
In the early 2000s, a reporter came to my high school to interview students about video games. I happily volunteered, looking forward to share the different genres and stories I'd experienced in the medium. Video games were getting a bad rap at the time, so I thought FINALLY I can share how cool and interesting these games can be. How naive I was. To my dismay, i read the article and found the reporter heavily edited my quotes to promote a piece about video game addiction. Sure, the topic is trivial but it taught me a valuable lesson on how some repooters twist truths and stories to fit their message.
It definitely sounds like this reporter, her editor and the mag were on a mission and were determined to twist whatever Hasan said to fit their pre-formed narrative. The article was designed to be a hit piece. I'm so sorry about all the things that Hasan and his family has had to go through. And I'm so angry about our billionaire-owned government and media that work very hard to keep We The People separate, confused and in our assigned places with their well-shod feet on our necks..
Don’t let this stop you from doing the great work you have been doing for awhile! You are great! Stay focused on what you always wanted to accomplish! This is just a bump and your fans are still here and waiting for your next piece 😊
Except it isn’t a tabloid and by right idea expected to hold itself to a higher standard. Also, these interviews are typically recorded and it would be very odd for the participant not to have access to them, they just don’t get to control what happens with them. So, essentially, it’s an example of TNY taking a shot at the wrong person to mess with and not about an occurrence of extraordinary diligence.
Yeah, it came across as very dismissive to my ear. Edit: I am hesitant to place all of the blame on the reporter, though. The editors are the ones that actually structure a piece. Of course, both could be true: she was uninterested and editorial chopped it up for their slimy framing.
@@ornament318 and why you asking me that? the new yorkers did him dirty and all the major media outlets just ran with the half-assed news I didn't frame him bro, so you have to ask them why they did it
when did fact checking become a thing for stand-up sketches? It's obvious that every stand-up comedian tweaks the details of their stories for comedic effect.
He did not "tweak" he invented stories to get sympathy and play of a real racists racial hatreds to help it grow. People are sick of fake woke cunts demonizing America. And THAT is his career. Making America appear more racist than it is.
Right? The whole setup for most early comedians was a fake wife and family who exist only for the punchline. No one ever cared. But now when they Want to attack someone, suddenly it's a problem. It's a targeted attack.
I watched all your shows in Netflix and thank you for shedding light on whats happening in the US. You are a great man. God bless to u and ur family. ❤❤❤
You’d think the New Yorker would have better things to do than create fake scandals. The whole thing was ridiculous, no one with half a brain thinks that comedians don’t embellish and exaggerate things for comedic effect or to make a coherent story. We love you, Hassan!
lol He just admitted to everything the New Yorker accused him of. He admitted to lying about much of the stories. He used very serious things like racism and islamophobia to lie, further his career, villainize white Americans and gas light the public.
It’s a comedy special, not a documentary! This level of diligence is way beyond what would be expected. Thanks for the honesty and sincerity and for all your work!
Totally! I am actually surprised his stories are so truthful. I always expect comedians to make up characters, embellish and mesh incidents together to tell the most compelling story. Who the hell thinks comedy programs are nonfiction?
From what I understand, his bending of the truth got a real life person he mention in his comedy special to be doxed and harassed. I know Bret Kreisher probably fabricated a lot of his stories but I have yet to hear about anyone being haress for it. Edit: My bad, according to Hasan she was not doxed nor did he lie about the racism.
Let's watch the actual video, shall we? He gave the New Yorker 4 years of emails from both of them. They ignored all that evidence, including the person in question thanking him for doing so much to protect her identity. The New Yorker wanted a hit piece
@@MrCherryzzthe girl wrote an email thanking HM for protecting her and her family's identity. She was never doxxed or harassed because no one knows her true identity. Didn't you watch the video and the emails he presented? Or are you like the New Yorker journalist?
I wasn’t aware of the article, but the actions of those “reporters” I’ve just listened to, make me sick. They basically have 0 standards, no ethics. Just trying to cancel people they don’t like. He should sue them for defamation
No artist anywhere tells an experience exactly as it happens. Their craft is to tell a good story. Sometimes that means spinning it into a relatable tale. Taking bits and pieces of reality and turn them into something understandable and educational or entertaining.
Yeah, Chris Rock has a bit where he jokes that he writes the punch lines first and then comes up with a story to justify it. The prevalence of comedians halfway through a joke saying "and this is true" implies that a lot of it is false, and probably a lot of the "true" things are false too.
That’s the entire point of arts. That’s what creative license is: an understanding that ART is interpretation, not journalism. Comedy, especially, is a reorganization of expectations.
I’m not familiar with your work but I am a long time reader of The New Yorker. I’m shocked they did a hit piece on you. Changing names and details of personal stories, amping up the drama for effect are absolutely part of the storyteller’s toolkit. They owe you an apology. You don’t owe an ex con FBI informant jack. Keep doing what you’re doing.
Exaggerating, changing details, amping up the drama for COMEDIC effect or the punchline is the comedian's job Doing it for sympathy points and to push a political narrative that borderlines on propoganda is not .
@@gamingdisaster341propaganda? That’s a bit much. Sympathy points? So you don’t recognize racism that he felt? As for a political narrative, we all have one. He was on the Daily Show ffs. His politics are openly known , seems that because you didn’t care for his view, you deemed it propaganda. That’s about as myopic as one can be.
@@surlypiratewench1969 lying and exaggerating experiences to push a different narrative is the literal definition of propoganda . I would recognize and sympathize with the racism he felt if he didn't lie about what he went through . And yes we all have political views , and I have known his since his Patriot act episodes , but not all of us distort and exaggerate our experiences to push them . Comedians lie and exaggerate. That's their job . However , Hasan doesn't lie and exaggerate for the purpose of comedy . He does it to victimize himself in front of the audience . The mail , the prom date , and the likes , there are not used for the purpose of storytelling . These are deliberate attempts to make it seem like he is a victim .
How to make a good response video: * Went straight to the point * No crap * No bullsh!t * No excuses * Provides evidence to debunk these claims (emails, recordings, messages etc.) * Apology feels genuine * Keeps his cool * Consistency * Thoroughly explains why he changed the stories. Hasan has a new career: a teacher on apology videos.
Incredible video and so insightful. Happy to see it because I’ve always looked up to you as an artist; the article really threw me for a loop. In a way, it’s a shame the article forced you to spell this out. Kind of like seeing a ‘behind the scenes’ of a fantasy film, and learning a portion of it was green screen or special effects. I think we all understand that there’s a certain amount of tweaking for narrative purposes in storytelling - we just ignore it and consciously ‘buy in’ because that enhances the experience. I think good stories are built on a foundation of truth, and it’s easy to sense when that’s not the case. A true storyteller knows what to manipulate so audiences get the best bang for your buck, entertainment wise, while the purposes of the story remains clear.
I’d like to see a single standup comedian, political or otherwise, to declare publicly that they have never embellished a single story for the purpose of their acts. Now I’d like to hear The New Yorker go on the record that they also never embellished a story or omitted relevant information from any of their articles. 😑
This is what happens when a person with a real, lived experience of racism has to go through the exhaustion of explaining themselves because the "journalist" has no emotional (and apparently, no educated) understanding of it.
lol He just admitted to everything the New Yorker accused him of. He admitted to lying about much of the stories. He used very serious things like racism and islamophobia to lie, further his career, villainize white Americans and gas light the public.
@@Shaurya_PantThe woman whose picture he showed was harrased and got threats, turns out story wasnt even true. Just some buthurt bs over her denying him a date. That is disgusting
@@pppLT19there needs to be a special youtube feature that prevents impatient, pitchfork wielding dumbasses like you from commenting on a video before watching it. take 21 minutes out of your day to watch the very video you are commenting on and you would know those photos weren't even real. plus, it has been years since Homecoming King was released, if she was actually doxxed and harassed and it was Hasan's fault, she would have good a basis to take legal action.
This was stating facts. I was sad for him that he had to cater to White Supremacy ideology, an irrational idea and fragility that makes any group that has been treated as a second class citizen feel like we can’t highlight the horrific nature and conditions of living through this era of White Supremacy. But this is good that he is poking holes in this irrational ideology that attacked him because he highlighted the ugliness within the current World culture.
@@bperez8656 I guess Kramer repeatedly shouting the N word during his stand up was fine? Sometimes an apology is definitely needed and if Hasan was guilty of everything he did in the article, he should have DEFINITELY apologized. So, no, 100% incorrect. Comedians should apologize if they cross the line, just like everu human being.
First time hearing about this. First time seeing this. This is an extraordinary amount of rigor. Kudos to you for holding this to account Hasan. Here's hoping this too shall pass, not just quickly, but with you safely riding above those waves.
It is ridiculous that you felt you had to apologize. Your show is not an autobiography. Your show is meant as entertainment. Still love & support you, sir! ❤
Thank you for explaining this!! I’m a school teacher who uses your prom story from the moth as a supplement to Romeo and Juliet. Now I will continue to use it. ❤
@@Purni1997 aawwww, what a good point. For four years, and even now-45 says anything he wants to with zero repercussion. And then a comedian is found to have changed some details in his story telling & the New Yorker is willing to end his career. That really is a shame. I feel like it also just goes to prove the validity of the points he was trying to get across to begin with.
@@ruthhenry9577 when he showed how they stitched his words together. I've seen that many times. But seriously, when you're writing an article on truth telling, you're gonna have the nerve to curb the truth?? They should be fired.
This is an incredible example of going about, "No, actually, YOU'RE wrong" without coming across as a petulant child. So many cited sources, examples and recordings, it was direct and specific. There was no shifting of blame, distancing language or major attacks of the other side-- literally just cold, hard facts from beginning to end. Excellent work, Hasan! 🤯👍
Yes, it was crazy like there was *all the documentation*. It would (to my mind) have been normal to just assume that you didn't have to document every bit of your comedy show, and every bit of the interview, but he had tapes and emails ... Probably, if needed, there'll be traces to find on the murder microphone of that "journalist" and fingerprints ... What was this? Is her dad an agent who told her they never slammed Muslim teenagers against anything? What's her motivation for dragging Hasan through the mud?
@@cnj67 Distorting information so that we all go WTF is exactly what the media does. Today, Hasan was their target, because they knew their spin on the truth would get people worked up. And it did. For a minute. But in a world where everyone can have a platform for their truth to be shared, and when they choose someone as intelligent and thoughtful as Hasan-- welp, their bullshit got exposed like the roaches they are. 🤷♀️
this is one of the best celebrity responses to a “scandal” that I’ve ever seen. The way you have moved forward with grace, honesty, and thoughtfulness is very impressive and appreciated. keep doing what you’re doing! 💗💗💗
You're telling me 100% of standup comedians told the truth 100% of the time until him? C'mon. Just saw him last week, he addressed it there and the audience proudly cheered for him to keep doing his thing. You rock bro, keep doing your thing.
nobody expects comedians to be just telling the truth,nobody. its amazing how easily people can be convinced that something they never cared about before is suddenly a bad thing.
I think Hasan said it best himself in the end... there is a different expectation with "funny political commitator" vs. "Comedian"... he may realize now that freely switching between those roles is not a viable option.
I was rooting for you to be the next host of The Daily Show. This absolute hit piece seems clearly calculated to kill that possibility. Im so sorry you got smeared like this. You are an amazing person, and I wish you all the best in your continuing career.
@@Tolandruth ---Did you really call Hasan Minhaj a PoS after listening to what he said? Or did you come to the comment section to be an edgy, racist edgelord? What the f#ck is wrong with you? Are you a klansman or neo-nazi, or is racism just a hobby for you? The ONLY thing you can object to in this video (if you even watched it) is Hasan Minhaj himself, which means you're being a racist. Just....why?
It's so odd to me that anyone takes standup routines as sworn testimony, "fact checks" them, and then tries to take down someone's entire career as if they lied under oath. I always thought the New Yorker had actual journalists.
Meanwhile our congressional overview of a character for the purpose of granting him the highest legal authority of the land for life just "takes his word for it." A white man can just say "I don't recall" while a brown one brings receipts that end up under the rug.
Bc they’ve been trying to silence and take Hasan down for years. It was an opportunity they thought would “cancel” him enough into a corner. I’m so glad he stayed true to himself and now brought his receipts.
This is one of the first times I've seen an apology video responded with, "YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO APOLOGIZE FOR!" You're awesome. You did this right.
Which is why its a good thing it is titled as "Response" not "Apology" - as people would generalize that he lied. But he still apologies for things he should not have to.
Wow this is absolutely incredible and shocking how misleading the reporting has been. My mind has completely changed on this topic. Hasan you have my full support. The New Yorker should be ashamed.
@@blastermaster5009dude, he gives proof against the main, most damning allegations the article makes. The rest of the ‘lies’ were literally him presenting facts in a way that’s fit for a stand up comedy show. None of those mislead people to any serious extent or hurts anyone. Really, the worst thing here is him narrating a story about being confronted by a specific fbi informant, and even then, though the details weren’t factual, the actual incident was.
True, but I'm hoping it becomes a great story in the next stand-up! It's almost too ridiculous to believe that a group proudly reporting on the truth of a comedic stand up special where emotions come first as if it were a bad thing, would do the SAME THING to put emotion first, by twisting the truth! They tried to pain.t him poorly while literally taking the same steps for clicks and to generate buzz. Except unlike Hasan's changes, theirs were clearly meant, or at least, capable, of doing damage!
It's wild to me how it was more upsetting to people that he embellished than it was that the core facts (girl's family rejecting him because racism, white powder being sent, etc) were true. Hard to tell whether it's people looking for an excuse to hate, media illiteracy, or both.
Not once did I ever think comedians were telling true stories. I always saw them as great storytellers providing us with moments of laughter and relatable situations. The amount of effort placed on fact checking comedians needs to be placed on our government!
Are you out of your mind. He not just an artist. The guy is a left wing propaganda machine.He made up stories of fake discrimination to support his left wing narratives. Which is not a very good thing. Comedy is different. That was straight up manipulation.
Black supremacist fragility experts who spout "Wypeepo fauwt!" and pretend they're a "comedian" with "punchlines" are political grifters who need monitoring. You don't care because you're a modernized "Wypeepo fauwt!" supremacist too. Or your just too stupid to fully understand the English language. Learned to talk as a parlor trick like a parrot.🤣🤙
he Iied about his own chiId to miIIions of people. Jimmy Kimmel bragged about yelling and making his kid cry. what is wrong with you people? cant you just start protecting your kid's privacy...?
I can not in good conscience trust that you get this or are baffled by it. The things you write are a fiction. You are probably a psycho. I am just writing the facts. Thank goodness we have The New Yorker to write stories without a biased slant to them. Praise sanity!
thats not the issue. no one ever said they thought comedians told the truth. the point is he fabricated stories being a 'comedian' to enhance victim hood not to make it funnier. that was the original criticism and he admits it.
@@boitshekomyataza8113 did u read mu comment??? Comedians aren’t about increasing victimhood and cirtue signal. That’s what activist do. He’s becoming Hannah gadsby. He got caught. Took him 7 weeks to come back with “receipts”. If this was at all true he could have made this in a week.
The irony for me is that she accuses Hasan of trying to enhance his career by telling lies. Meanwhile she is the one that clearly is attempting to do that for herself by writing this misleading article.😒 In my opinion you did NOTHING wrong. Keep going and do what you do!🙏🏽💝
"Let's take this brown artist playing the victim card and expose him in a witch hunt, in a crusade we don't tipically wage against, y'know, white artists" They made him suffer racism while probing to prove he hadn't.
Yes, there is nothing similar between stand up comedian jokes that might be made up and a serious article attacking a real person integrity! I didn’t know that standup comedian has to experience all the stories they talk about!
I miss the Patriot Act ❤ Whether these 3 stories were your truth or not, they have happened to a brown kid in this country. Comedy is storytelling and adding “spice” to real stories; it’s to immerse in a story and laugh
Hassan, of course we don't know you personally, but you are amazing, we feel the sincerity shining from you... The media should not distort your wonderful show in such an ugly way, the story is inspiring and hopeful and it is something that must be heard more, so thank you for your bravery.❤
Autocracy is coming to take our freedom of speech and our understanding of artistic expression. They start with what they believe to be low hanging fruit. Many thanks to you, Hasan, for defending your liberty. Our minds are too strong to fold to these threats, antics, and attempts at defamation to bolster cancel culture.
@@2LiFt3DxOwhen exactly did he do that? My takeaway is that in his stand-up routines occasionally there are specifics that are changed or the story is told as though it happened to him when he was more incidentally involved but the base events are all real, however in his series and specials all the facts are unadulterated.
Hasan- you are a gifted storyteller. You give us hard and painful truths wrapped in a giggle. Those painful truths are hard to swallow, traumatic to carry, and difficult to talk about. Your gift is making those painful truths easier for us to carry together, to talk about together, and hopefully someday work through together. YOU are a special type of healer/therapist that helps us cope with societal trauma. THANK YOU!!! Much Love and Respect for you and the gifts you share with us!!!
Taking this all in and I just hope HM actually reads these comments because I want to acknowledge how hurtful it can feel when organizations, journalists, etc. not only present in a somewhat false manner (when speaking to you face to face) then break trust, but also take your words out of context to create a false narrative that serves their own needs. It's dangerous and it has the potential to ruin one's life/health/career trajectory. This happened to me as well and I just want to say that your emotions are completely valid. These types of occurrences need to be called out because they pose a high risk for psychological ramifications. Thank you for sharing. I hope that one day I can be as courageous as you when speaking up against injustices.
There's a reason that in many stand-up specials comedians are often in the middle of a bit and they turned to the audience and before a major part they say "and this part is 100% true" and then say part of the bit. They do that because it's quite obvious that comedy bits are nuggets of truth with comedic embellishment for the purpose of entertainment and storytelling
I always found something mildly ridiculous about this whole thing. Are there people out there who expect comedy shows to be full of true stories? I always operated on the assumption that every story was full of artistic license and exaggerations because life doesn't follow a setup-punchline structure.
I don’t think it was necessarily that every single thing needed to be true and that that was why people were mad. I think it was just that the emotional connections he made with the audience was built on shared experiences of racism, and so when it was made to seem like those experiences were falsified, it felt that he "faked" experiences of racism just to get a connection with the audience. It not necessarily that the jokes weren’t true, it was that the stories they were based on weren’t.
Most people understand the artistic license that comes with a comedian's stand-up, and "Comedian bends truth to make funnier jokes" isn't a very compelling story. The journalists from The New Yorker are savvy professionals, and everything in how their piece is written is meant to heavily imply that because of this you can't trust his political work like Patriot Act.
I’m also shocked. Since when do we consider stand up comedy jokes as all facts? While the language used is rhetorical, I’ve always viewed it as something similar to a play, a story, or a song where its clear that the author took inspiration from certain events in their life and created a script to deliver jokes.
@@htbostonYou didn't pay "good" attention to the details in the video,did you? Are you proud of how the "girl's" parents treated Hassan? Be rather thankful for him protecting her identity.
Ive always thought comedians, in any shape or form, were never as serious as I thought them out to be and this is mainly because of my mental immaturity. But as the tides across the world changes drastically, I started to realize the work these gems have put, even if it's done as a joke or satire, which compliments my mode of thinking a lot. Their work now is more credible than any news or journalist outlet we have today. Keep up the great work Hasan. Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇮🇳
Bruh, you're good. You're a professional storyteller who makes people laugh. I don't go home thinking, 'Was that story true?' I go home and say, 'He's funny.'
i honestly respect that you took the time to respond, it gives you time to deliver a more meaningful and fleshed out response. It's honestly ridiculous that you're having to explain basic comedy writing for people who are deliberately missing the point.
Or, it's very odd that he's spending this much effort to debunk claims that he previously admitted were true. Protesting his exposure as a liar isn't going to get him back in the running for The Daily Show.
It's crazy how The New Yorker reporter Clare Malone clearly twisted his words to make it seem like a muslim wasn't "actually" affected by racism, just because the racist event happened a few days before he said it happened (which she "forgot" to include in her flashy clickbait article). What an evil woman with a horrible agenda.
@@mjredder Wait... Your argument is that if someone is attacked and a news outlet only gives half the info - that person should NOT provide the evidence of the news outlet leaving out important context? WOW! That says more about YOU than you think.
@@garethharriott9582Exactly, he's a f*cking comedian people!!! This whole thing is completely insane! Shame on the journalist that wrote this "hit piece"!!!!!!!!!! We, as Americans, should be on notice! If this can happen to Hasan, it can happen to anyone!!!
As a big fan of Hasan, I was really struggling with the article. I appreciate the thoughtfulness, sincerity and self-reflection. I will be passing this video along to some of my coworkers who had written him off.
I think someone should do an investigation on whether Eddie Murphy's Aunt Bunny actually fell down the stairs for 5 solid minutes at every cookout, if she ever got her shoe back, and how she's living now.
As soon as I heard about that story, I thought, no way are we cancelling Hasan. Everyone knows and expects comics to embellish and re-imagine stories so they hit more effectively in a standup set. That's why comedy is an art form, not a peer-reviewed journal. It infurates me that Hasan didn't get the Daily Show over this because he was absolutely the best. Thank you for this video and I wish you hadn't had to make it. You deserve so much better.
Viacom is notorious for being cheap and difficult to work with. Many report they say "bring your own suits" when on the show. Hasan can probably make more with other projects.
I mean the standup was a bit more than an art form and became political after he brought up things that many young immigrants/ children of immigrants can relate to on a personal level. Yeah I don't care when comics very obviously embellish stories but idk it was disappointing to feel like I felt an emotional response over lies
Honestly he's too good for the daily show. They real watered it down after Jon left. And look what they did to john on Apple, cancelled again for being too truthful. Imagine how long Hasan would've lasted on the daily show.
@@asmaa___ i hear what you are saying, however, is "lies" really an accurate portrayal? these instances were not made up out of whole cloth. these were situations he found himself in in his life, artistically changed and embellished to be more entertaining and affect people on a deeper level. but it's not like he just made it up.
This apology is exactly why i was so hoping that Hassan wld be the next host for the Daily Show. Facts, sincerity, humor and intelligence both mental and emotional. Thank you Hassan for showing us what true character and honesty looks like.
This whole video is like Jussie Smollett saying “I portrayed my emotional truths because as an actor, emotions come first and I wanted people to feel what I felt ” 💀
We are in a special moment in the history that we hold comedians to a higher standard than heads of state.
Big fact. If they'd put this much effort into our politicians smh
Or reporters
Exactly my thougths. Absolutely bizarre and confusing.
Oof well said
Amen!
The fact that a comedian is being scrutinized for not telling a story EXACTLY how it happened when there are literal politicians just confidently lying about facts is just absurd to me.
Or journalists lying about facts...
exactly, nitpick on the comedian but bend over backwards to allocate time for politicians to straight up lie and call it showing both sides of an argument. The nerve of these people!
This comment should be the top pinned reply. I wish I could give you a standing applause. How people can take a comedian seriously during an act is mind blowing. Stay Safe and Be Well.
You're an actual moron if you think that's the issue. Comedians make things up all the time for stand-up, but Hasan Minhaj is an activist first, comedian second. He tried to pass off flat-out lies, one of them bordering on harassing to a woman he smeared as racist despite being married to an Indian man, to become successful. Hasan Minhaj is a fraud and any idiots still giving money to him should be mocked just like Jussie Smollett.
Exactly!!! The audacity
For anyone who doesn’t know, The New Yorker has responded to this video. They said: we stand by the story
It’s like they feel absolutely NO SHAME making biased reports and destroying someone’s reputation. They will not apologise because they don’t know what accountability is. What a disgrace.
booo new yorker, booo!
@@TheYungManProjecthe lied about being rejected on the girl’s doorstep, on the night of prom, after telling the audiences she said yes. And totally passed it off as true. Exactly how is that not lying 😆
@@vitamindealer7915 what people are saying is that comedians aren't where you go for truths, they're where you go for laughs or for stories.
@@vitamindealer7915 did you even watch this video? he has tonnes of evidence showing the validity of the core of his story. So what if he dramatized it on a doorstep, for a brief comedy show? It's like pointing out he asserted it occurred on a wednesday instead of a tuesday, and therefore the whole story is false, even though every other detail is shown to be accurate? Cherrypicking details and stitching them into a new narrative doesn't prove your point, it makes you the liar, or an idiot.
@@mrlugh he is saying he went to her house after she said yes, and got rejected by her parents, and she had a white date, and just kind of went with it. Can you tell me play by play what really happened and what did not?
Thank you for calling out the New Yorker for crap journalism while also admitting your own mistakes. It sucks to be falsely accused and have your words twisted around. Well done.
Wait until they find out Chapelle, Burr and every comedian exaggerate in their stand up specials...even make non-political correct jokes. You're telling me Bobby Lee didn't actually get molested by a kid with down syndrome for three months straight?? These journalists and the current climate of political correctness will be the death of comedy.
They reported what he said
@@apex7640 "what he said" was not "reported"
That journalist was a snake Jesus christ
Can't help but think this was all a hit job to diminish the chances of Hasan being offered the Daily Show gig. Thank you for this thorough response.
I mean, according to some reports, it was successful, according to multiple reports, he was supposed to get the gig but the article made them rethink. And I don't even fault the viacom executives for that one, given the article that move is understandable.
I agree
Their lose, no one watches TDS now
100%
Yes 💯💯
The New Yorker be like:
Creating a fictional story in a comedy show: ❌
Creating a fictional story in a news paper: ✅
No kidding, the stage show was more truthful than the article.
Imagine that. Shameful.
And Hasan just reversed that. This is the problem with moral equivalencies.
LITERALLY 🤦🏾♂️
Well put 💯💯💯
I didn’t think my respect for Hasan as an artist could grow any greater. It just did.
And as a fellow IBS-sufferer, I'm right there with you, Sir/Madam.
I love how nobody cares that the most racist part of the whole story is *still true,* but he just wasn’t on her doorstep when it happened. 🙄 Hasan nailed this response, but I feel terrible for him for having to go through this.
This rich cry baby lied to gain sympathy for political reasons. Plain and simple
@@Lepidopterous. That's like a common story... happens to a lot of people...that's why its believable and a perfect story to tell because people can relate
Watched 2 minutes of this video then shut it off. You don''t owe anybody an explanation bro. You're a comedian who tells funny stories. Whatever you gotta do to create those stories is your artistic license.
MacLethal is here???!?!? You're the funni fast rapping dude
True
Hasan comments on a whole lot more than pop culture and funny voices. He admits that people ask his opinions so he is much more than a comedian.
You probably should’ve watched it lol. New yorker basically shows how morally corrupt they are to slander someone for news headlines. Straight up psychotic behavior
Your right but I think it is worth watching the whole recording just to see the evil of the media and how instead of giving unbiased true story's they manipulate and lie on things that although have no importance in the world can ruin those involved. The short reply's from the journalist alone say a thousand words.
Gotta love how they put more effort into fact checking a comedy show than their own article
That's a mic drop🎤
They "so called" fact checked his comedy. They didn't really do it.
Good point ☝️
@@spaceforce-girlforcejjwest2048
His ability to communicate and his personal life is not a requirement.
Comedy does not have to be true, but it should be funny.
Which facts did the New Yorker get wrong? Seems there are objections that things were “taken out of context” but I don’t see anything that’s been proven false about the article.
The fact that Clare Malone (the author of the hit piece) insinuated that Hasan owed the FBI agent a "heads up", even though his job was to entrap innocent Muslims without any heads up, is both hilariously ironic and outrageous.
Also, it’s plain disgusting!
Because dont you people realize!!! Americans hate Muslims!! and brown people like the fact we are sitting here still having this discussion despite what happened after 9/11 and what is happening now with Israel attacking Palestinians lmfao like they literally do not see us as humans ofc theyre going to be happy to attack and ruin the career of a muslim brown man. Hasan nearly secured a bag (daily show) and some evil rat ruined it for him. Not everything is race thing or whatever but THIS IS and it is so evident. Moreso people hate Muslims with an intense rage that theyre willing to wipe out Gaza and no nation is criticizing them for it.
I wouldn’t be shocked at all to find out she had racial motivations. All of this is way too out of left field.
Clare Malone can't be spreading disinformation like this. I read one of her Trump articles and I wonder what else she has lied about Trump. She should be put in jail for election-meddling yes.
@@epicfailure210 so, she's a racist because she accused him of faking racism? What a stretch.
As a black man, I do not appreciate people who cosplay at racism. If it's fake, it had to be clear. Dave chapelle story of him calling the cops and the cops coming and screaming " there is still a n___ in the house" and " why did he put picture of himself and his family on the wall?", is funny obviously fake but still deliver a message about racism.
I think I respect him even more. Honestly prior to this “exposé” any reasonable person would expect, and even require, that his standup should be loosely based in reality to not only protect those he talks about, but to enhance the clarity of complicated stories without rambling. He is a comedian doing standup, it is his job to not loose the audience and to evoke laughter. The fact that he is actually as close to reality as he is without endangering his former gf/family is actually super impressive. He’s consistently above and beyond in logic and emotional sway for his genre.
If anything the article should have been about how other comedians could take notes.
So true!!
Thank you for being open and honest not only now but throughout your career! You are someone that I really do look up to. Your acceptance of faults and still standing up for yourself at the same time is inspiring! ❤
"when my father died, my heart was broken"
New Yorker fact check: "no, your heart wasn't really broken. Hearts can't broke."
Lmaoooo @ “hearts can’t broke”. That’s exactly what they would say. 🤣🤣
Frrrr
Just watched this on the HR article. The Bethany part is insane. The New Yorker reporter should be ashamed of herself. She had the emails and evidence, yet chose to selectively publish what suited her agenda. Wonder if the reporter will ever be held accountable?
Reporters never give minorities fair coverage.
Look into how trans people get reported on. Nothing is listened to. It’s just so much bullshit and smearing
Exactly thank you for putting that out there
Sue Clare Malone for defamation
Clare Malone should be fired.for .embellishing the truth of her interview with Hassan Manaj.
The reporter might just say that their article is based on their own" emotional truth", and the "factual truth is secondary". They've already shown a lack of respect for what Hasan is saying, why wouldn't they steal his own words and diminish them even further?
Kicking a brown man out of the race for The Daily Show host job was the objective. Someone talked to Claire Malone before she "developed" interest in Hasan Minhaj's comedy.
Explaining a joke is the worst thing you can do as a comedian. Bro, I don't know why people are upset, I think reporters think of you as a News Host and not a comedian. We love you and God bless your family.
whats the joke again? hes admitting that he changed his stories to increase his standing as a victim, that was the original criticism. everyone knows comedians bend the truth to make things funnier, thats not what he did. funny how it took him so long to come back with these receipts since he was telling the truth the whole time. you would have thought he would have been able to make a response in a couple of days. his pr team went into damage control
It is incomprehensible that in 2023 a comedian has to explain that his jokes are jokes.
This was going to be almost my exact statement. I support you Hasan!
Fact-checking jokes in 2023 is like how the media started reporting Trump's tweets as news in 2017. This won't go well.
It is incomprehensible that in 2023 a person calls fake racist stories, jokes.
It's messed up, seriously!!!
And then you have "influencers" and "leaders" just going wild with the truth and constantly getting away with it
As a lifetime New Yorker reader, I’m horrified that this happened. And as a comedy lover, it never occurred to me that comedy needed to be literal truth. That’s not how storytelling works! Sincerely hope the very-talented Hasan Minhaj’s reputation and career fully recover.
100% with you
Just what I was thinking.!
Fully agree.
My immediate thought is of Nick Swardson trying to express that not everything said on stage is true by acting out telling a cheetah to sit to showcase how ridiculous some of the premises he uses are. All to stop people from believing he feeds his cat diarrhea
This all is just blatant comedy profiling… and we’ve got to pay attention to what type of comedians this is happening to 🤔
Thank you for making this video. I wish more people in the world were as open and transparent as you
You'
d think that Dave Chappelle ACTUALLY saw a baby standing on the corner at 3am in the Ghetto ....or else!
thank you for bringing up that joke! Hey baby! lives rent-free in my head to this day.
Are you saying that is NOT true?
Ohh... the betrayal... I'll never get over this... my life has ended!
A comedian is holding themself to a higher standard than journalists and politicians.
What's really deceitful about the article is the excerpts that are highlighted in the subtitle and inserts - A reader takes these as accurate encapsulations of the content but instead they are hyperbolic distortions of the details in the story. Defenders of the story point to sections of the story that can be claimed to be more nuanced but what is highlighted is not.
He's not holding himself to a higher standard. He's just trying to keep his career alive after being caught as a fraud.
@@alexc7242 I don't know how you can think that after watching the video.
Sorry I’m late to comment on this video but I recently dropped a bag on anthrax on my baby. Also you claimed the parents said they couldn’t have you come over cause they were taking family photos. Then in the audio recording you admit that it was basically a vibe of racism. Then to bolster your claim you showed an email in which this lady said her parents had grown. She probably said that cause you told her that her parents said you weren’t allowed in because you were Indian when in fact it’s because you got the vibe they were racist. lol you didn’t disprove anything. It’s probably another lie. Why would you show up to a girls house who don’t date and get mad when they say they are busy doing family photos?!!! Weird also one last thing. Yo don’t pretend your Indian parents would be cool with you dating some other than Indian. lol your proof is “oh well I felt someway about being able to interrupt a family event so it must be cause I’m black *cough cough* I mean brown but i pretend to be black cause I like hippy-hop and I’m a total sneakerhead y’all feel me?” Dude even if the story about the parents is true which why would I believe you? It’s literally a he said/she said situation and I’m sure that girl feels sorry if that did happen but just cause you sent a couple of friendly emails. What do you expect for her to hold a grudge and call you a lair? She more or less says thanks for the email, hope all is well. Also show the dates in which those email were sent before or after the article…
Sorry I got to go I was held up at gun point by a cop for playing basketball, y’all know how it be.
That's a lot of words when "I'm racist" says the same in 2
You can pretty much hear it in the reporters voice that she was about to perform a hit. “We can provide you with the proof.” “Mhm” “I can send it to you.” “Yeah.” “We’ll make sure you get it.” “Sure.”
right? her vocal tone seemed so fucking dismissive. "and it just destroyed me." "yeah, sure. that's understandable." so unsympathetic, impersonal, not even "i understand." but her tone just says "whatever".
To be frank, that's your typical passive-aggressive liberal. They are insufferable. And I say that as a Democrat.
That’s honestly what kind pissed me off more. It just feel so gross. How do you even live yourself being this purposefully manipulative and calling yourself a journalist?
It's your typical passive-aggressive li-burrh-ulll. And I say that as a Democrat.
💯 Her condescension as well as bias was overt... likely also prone to projection and gaslighting.
You don't need to say Sorry. You are one of a few smart and genuine comedians. Please stay strong and just be yourself. Sorry you have to go through crap.
I've never gone to a comedy show expecting everything to be true, I go to be entertained, You don't owe me or anybody an apology. your job is to make us laugh; and if you throw in some uncomfotable truths even better. If they don't get it that's their loss, not yours.. Part of being a good comedian is being sensitive to people, but sometimes you need to tell them to F#%k off. Keep doing what you do and and thanks for making us laugh. Remember no good deed goes unpunished, and you can't please everyone.
As an Indian woman, this is the flavor of racism we deal with. Nit-picking, gaslighting to have us meeting unfairly high standards, needing to remain very calm as we lay down rational receipts of facts. I am the first woman in my family to leave the Indian community and work/go to school/live primarily around other races, and this has been the experience. Hasan's response feels simultaneously familiar and a masterclass on how to improve my responses the next time it happens with me.
So true! You articulated our feelings on this double standard perfectly.
You're a liar
Go back to India if you feel so "oppressed"
I assure my Indian brother-in-law does not feel the same
He's a fan of Jordan Peterson
"As an Indian woman, this is the flavor of racism we deal with"
So no racism?
@@jackkentner158 she's saying this is the exact type of actions & type of behaviors that she's witnessed being taken out on her before & that the Muslim community is, unfortunately all too familiar with. Def racism.
@@trueXMotionFitness
You're both elevating a verified liar who is using a community as a shield to make millions of dollars.
1). The FBI informant story where he claims to have suffered police brutality never happened because the informant was IN PRISON at the time Hasan said the story happened and wasn't even an informant yet.
2). The toxic white powder falling on his kid is obviously a lie as it was never reported, and the NYC terrorism unit never investigated it.
3). The white woman whose name he publicly smeared for being racist, is MARRIED to and Indian man. He just wanted to get back at her for rejecting his offer to take her to the prom.
Newsflash: Saying that your story contains some "emotional truths" means that it is still a goddamn lie, lies in which he directly benefited from. Unless you think people who use tactics like Jussie Smollett to get famous, we should not be elevating a person like this.
This is what happens when a journalist goes seeking a story to fit their narrative instead of investigating a story and finding the narrative.
nah... not even... this is what happens when a "journalist" can print whatever the f*ck they want and they know nothing will happen to them... those are 2 different things...
@@kennethalpizar32I agree. I have to wonder if there is something more nefarious going on? To willfully ignore facts....I wonder if she was paid off to do this? He seems to have plenty of enemies
@@Necrotic99Forget this hit peice they did to a comedian, imagine countires and politics.
Thank you for the incite.
I trust a comedian over any "journalist"
Thank you for standing up to slanted journalism! I have always thoroughly enjoyed your show. I never stopped and questioned the details of what you were saying, but I always understood that there was an underlying truth. I, too, want America to grow in love and embrace the diversity that makes us who we are.
I remember seeing some of these articles popping up and it felt like such a joke every time, it was hilarious and sad to skim through. I love your work man, it never mattered whether or not it was based on real events, it was still worth telling.
I find it strange they’re fact-checking comedy shows and disturbing that they chose the topic of racism to gaslight. Thank you for sharing this story. I hope you continue to share your experiences and give voice to important topics.
Help us expose them: Clearly Hasan was targeted because he is brown and Muslim. They don’t want him to be part of the Daily show other than a side act. The Daily show and the New Yorker is predominantly filled with Zionists.
Yeah, I have watched a lot of standup and I have never thought everything in the show was factual. Like, it's a show, not a lecture.
HE used racism to gaslight.
Lying about him taking his daughter to the hospital after claiming someone sent him anthrax is just disgusting.
Yeah. No. He wasn't lying to make his comedy better, he was lying to make himself look like a victim and make millions.
In the early 2000s, a reporter came to my high school to interview students about video games. I happily volunteered, looking forward to share the different genres and stories I'd experienced in the medium. Video games were getting a bad rap at the time, so I thought FINALLY I can share how cool and interesting these games can be. How naive I was. To my dismay, i read the article and found the reporter heavily edited my quotes to promote a piece about video game addiction. Sure, the topic is trivial but it taught me a valuable lesson on how some repooters twist truths and stories to fit their message.
It definitely sounds like this reporter, her editor and the mag were on a mission and were determined to twist whatever Hasan said to fit their pre-formed narrative. The article was designed to be a hit piece.
I'm so sorry about all the things that Hasan and his family has had to go through.
And I'm so angry about our billionaire-owned government and media that work very hard to keep We The People separate, confused and in our assigned places with their well-shod feet on our necks..
I can’t tell if you misspelled reporters as “repooters” on purpose or not haha
@@LinkLovesPancakesI’m pretending it was cuz it’s hilarious
We love you unconditionally, Hassan don't give so much attention to these fake news legacy media crap. 😊
@@LinkLovesPancakes freudian slip :)
Don’t let this stop you from doing the great work you have been doing for awhile!
You are great! Stay focused on what you always wanted to accomplish! This is just a bump and your fans are still here and waiting for your next piece 😊
It's called artistic licence! I love your work! And your humanity❤❤❤
Glad Hassan & his team recorded the entire audio of the interview with the NewYorker; always protect yourself against such tabloids
You’re joking right?
Except it isn’t a tabloid and by right idea expected to hold itself to a higher standard.
Also, these interviews are typically recorded and it would be very odd for the participant not to have access to them, they just don’t get to control what happens with them.
So, essentially, it’s an example of TNY taking a shot at the wrong person to mess with and not about an occurrence of extraordinary diligence.
Man sounds like defamation to me. #UGotAmbered.
seejaneread,
Why would you say that, seems nonsensical.
The "New Yorker" is not a tabloid.
Her incessant use of “sure” told me all I needed to know about her commitment to reporting the truth
She did sound very uninterested in the interview.
Sure= yeah whatever
Exactly
Fr every time I heard her say “sure” it was basically a “y’all hear something?” 🤦🏻♂️
Yeah, it came across as very dismissive to my ear.
Edit: I am hesitant to place all of the blame on the reporter, though. The editors are the ones that actually structure a piece.
Of course, both could be true: she was uninterested and editorial chopped it up for their slimy framing.
Post truth era has reached a stage where comedians have to fact check journalists....
Hassan, you did your job as a comedian entertainer. Your supporting audio truly tells a different story of what came through the article. Stay strong.
Very strange choice of actions by the media here. Thank you for sharing and being vulnerable
Fancy seeing you here. Shouldn't you be buying the dip! 😉
he is a Muslim...so..
@@Sifat_Rashidthat's too bad
@@Sifat_Rashidwhy is that a problem?
@@ornament318 and why you asking me that? the new yorkers did him dirty and all the major media outlets just ran with the half-assed news
I didn't frame him bro, so you have to ask them why they did it
when did fact checking become a thing for stand-up sketches? It's obvious that every stand-up comedian tweaks the details of their stories for comedic effect.
He did not "tweak" he invented stories to get sympathy and play of a real racists racial hatreds to help it grow. People are sick of fake woke cunts demonizing America. And THAT is his career. Making America appear more racist than it is.
Right? The whole setup for most early comedians was a fake wife and family who exist only for the punchline. No one ever cared. But now when they Want to attack someone, suddenly it's a problem. It's a targeted attack.
Facts
Serious! never heard of such a thing until today!
yes they do tweak for comedic effect not for pity effect like this guy
Thank you Hassan. We believe you and we love you ❤
I watched all your shows in Netflix and thank you for shedding light on whats happening in the US. You are a great man. God bless to u and ur family. ❤❤❤
You’d think the New Yorker would have better things to do than create fake scandals. The whole thing was ridiculous, no one with half a brain thinks that comedians don’t embellish and exaggerate things for comedic effect or to make a coherent story. We love you, Hassan!
lol He just admitted to everything the New Yorker accused him of. He admitted to lying about much of the stories. He used very serious things like racism and islamophobia to lie, further his career, villainize white Americans and gas light the public.
Nah I think they get off on fake scandals and this crap IS NOT NEW.
Exactly! This is a bunch of horse sht! Tell me why they don't press heads of state the way they attempted to do with Hasan? It's despicable
FAKE?
I prefer OBJECTIVE?
You?
It was probably a hit piece to make him lose the daily show host gig.
It’s a comedy special, not a documentary! This level of diligence is way beyond what would be expected. Thanks for the honesty and sincerity and for all your work!
Totally! I am actually surprised his stories are so truthful. I always expect comedians to make up characters, embellish and mesh incidents together to tell the most compelling story. Who the hell thinks comedy programs are nonfiction?
Bill Maher makes up stories every episode, where's the New Yorker article?
From what I understand, his bending of the truth got a real life person he mention in his comedy special to be doxed and harassed. I know Bret Kreisher probably fabricated a lot of his stories but I have yet to hear about anyone being haress for it.
Edit: My bad, according to Hasan she was not doxed nor did he lie about the racism.
Let's watch the actual video, shall we? He gave the New Yorker 4 years of emails from both of them. They ignored all that evidence, including the person in question thanking him for doing so much to protect her identity. The New Yorker wanted a hit piece
@@MrCherryzzthe girl wrote an email thanking HM for protecting her and her family's identity. She was never doxxed or harassed because no one knows her true identity.
Didn't you watch the video and the emails he presented? Or are you like the New Yorker journalist?
I wonder why the New Yorker was so interested in writing this story
I wasn’t aware of the article, but the actions of those “reporters” I’ve just listened to, make me sick. They basically have 0 standards, no ethics. Just trying to cancel people they don’t like.
He should sue them for defamation
Thank you Hasan for clearing the air on this
Wow 😲
Nice
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Wow
Nice
No artist anywhere tells an experience exactly as it happens. Their craft is to tell a good story. Sometimes that means spinning it into a relatable tale. Taking bits and pieces of reality and turn them into something understandable and educational or entertaining.
Yeah, Chris Rock has a bit where he jokes that he writes the punch lines first and then comes up with a story to justify it.
The prevalence of comedians halfway through a joke saying "and this is true" implies that a lot of it is false, and probably a lot of the "true" things are false too.
That’s the entire point of arts. That’s what creative license is: an understanding that ART is interpretation, not journalism. Comedy, especially, is a reorganization of expectations.
Where's the New Yorker article asking Dave Chapelle if he really saw a baby selling crack on a corner or if he really has a white friend named Chip?
@@24hr-Gaming 🤣🤣🤣 no kidding. what the hell?
That said, in my next DnD campaign with a high charisma character, I might just introduce a tick where they say "and this is true" all the time.
You do you. Thanks for all the great content you've given us throughout the years.
The New Yorker needs to investigate every episode of "Seinfeld".
I’m not familiar with your work but I am a long time reader of The New Yorker. I’m shocked they did a hit piece on you. Changing names and details of personal stories, amping up the drama for effect are absolutely part of the storyteller’s toolkit. They owe you an apology. You don’t owe an ex con FBI informant jack. Keep doing what you’re doing.
Emotional truth 😂
Exaggerating, changing details, amping up the drama for COMEDIC effect or the punchline is the comedian's job
Doing it for sympathy points and to push a political narrative that borderlines on propoganda is not .
I could not of articulated the situation any better. Very disappointed in the New Yorker
@@gamingdisaster341propaganda? That’s a bit much. Sympathy points? So you don’t recognize racism that he felt? As for a political narrative, we all have one. He was on the Daily Show ffs. His politics are openly known , seems that because you didn’t care for his view, you deemed it propaganda. That’s about as myopic as one can be.
@@surlypiratewench1969 lying and exaggerating experiences to push a different narrative is the literal definition of propoganda .
I would recognize and sympathize with the racism he felt if he didn't lie about what he went through .
And yes we all have political views , and I have known his since his Patriot act episodes , but not all of us distort and exaggerate our experiences to push them .
Comedians lie and exaggerate. That's their job .
However , Hasan doesn't lie and exaggerate for the purpose of comedy . He does it to victimize himself in front of the audience .
The mail , the prom date , and the likes , there are not used for the purpose of storytelling . These are deliberate attempts to make it seem like he is a victim .
How to make a good response video:
* Went straight to the point
* No crap
* No bullsh!t
* No excuses
* Provides evidence to debunk these claims (emails, recordings, messages etc.)
* Apology feels genuine
* Keeps his cool
* Consistency
* Thoroughly explains why he changed the stories.
Hasan has a new career: a teacher on apology videos.
And most importantly:
* No ukulele
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Lol 😆 🤣 😂
@@MBdynamoBostikalso for not saying, "I was in a dark place" and "I'm only human"
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@@DixieTsutsaeva you missed the most important thing in the video : smartest product placement in history for " tile" GPS tracking tags !
Incredible video and so insightful. Happy to see it because I’ve always looked up to you as an artist; the article really threw me for a loop. In a way, it’s a shame the article forced you to spell this out. Kind of like seeing a ‘behind the scenes’ of a fantasy film, and learning a portion of it was green screen or special effects. I think we all understand that there’s a certain amount of tweaking for narrative purposes in storytelling - we just ignore it and consciously ‘buy in’ because that enhances the experience. I think good stories are built on a foundation of truth, and it’s easy to sense when that’s not the case. A true storyteller knows what to manipulate so audiences get the best bang for your buck, entertainment wise, while the purposes of the story remains clear.
I’d like to see a single standup comedian, political or otherwise, to declare publicly that they have never embellished a single story for the purpose of their acts. Now I’d like to hear The New Yorker go on the record that they also never embellished a story or omitted relevant information from any of their articles.
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This was SO well presented...he could be a Supreme Court lawyer.
As for the New Yorker, I will abstain from looking at their cartoons from now on...
This is what happens when a person with a real, lived experience of racism has to go through the exhaustion of explaining themselves because the "journalist" has no emotional (and apparently, no educated) understanding of it.
lol He just admitted to everything the New Yorker accused him of. He admitted to lying about much of the stories. He used very serious things like racism and islamophobia to lie, further his career, villainize white Americans and gas light the public.
Not even fact checking her own piece of propaganda. She needs to be immediately cancelled.
@@Shaurya_PantThe woman whose picture he showed was harrased and got threats, turns out story wasnt even true. Just some buthurt bs over her denying him a date. That is disgusting
@@Shaurya_Pant lol He admitted to everything the NYer accused him of.
@@pppLT19there needs to be a special youtube feature that prevents impatient, pitchfork wielding dumbasses like you from commenting on a video before watching it. take 21 minutes out of your day to watch the very video you are commenting on and you would know those photos weren't even real. plus, it has been years since Homecoming King was released, if she was actually doxxed and harassed and it was Hasan's fault, she would have good a basis to take legal action.
Moral of the story: Take meticulous notes 😂
God this felt like the greatest unnecessary apology ever. Even a bigger fan now!
Comedians should never apologize EVER!
Hasan Mirage
This was stating facts. I was sad for him that he had to cater to White Supremacy ideology, an irrational idea and fragility that makes any group that has been treated as a second class citizen feel like we can’t highlight the horrific nature and conditions of living through this era of White Supremacy. But this is good that he is poking holes in this irrational ideology that attacked him because he highlighted the ugliness within the current World culture.
@@bperez8656 I guess Kramer repeatedly shouting the N word during his stand up was fine? Sometimes an apology is definitely needed and if Hasan was guilty of everything he did in the article, he should have DEFINITELY apologized.
So, no, 100% incorrect. Comedians should apologize if they cross the line, just like everu human being.
"unnecessary apology" is the best summary of this whole video. I understand why he did it but the idea that he even had to? Wild.
First time hearing about this. First time seeing this. This is an extraordinary amount of rigor. Kudos to you for holding this to account Hasan. Here's hoping this too shall pass, not just quickly, but with you safely riding above those waves.
stay strong bro, your comedy is different and needed
This is the BEST most fact checked and honest response I've EVER seen to such an article. Thank you for doing this and I'm sorry you had to do it
Asking him to apologize to Craig is just insane.
absolutely
Seriously. Screw Craig.
IKR THAT MADE ME SO MAD!!!! Once you’ve heard that it’s SO clear where this reporter is coming from
It is ridiculous that you felt you had to apologize. Your show is not an autobiography. Your show is meant as entertainment. Still love & support you, sir! ❤
Thank you for explaining this!! I’m a school teacher who uses your prom story from the moth as a supplement to Romeo and Juliet. Now I will continue to use it. ❤
The fact that he's been put into a situation where he has to go to these lengths to explain himself is crazy.
Even if its not true, more than half of comics sets are made up. It’s as if they don’t understand how a joke is created
Funny thing is Presidents can say anything but a Muslim can’t say a story in a stand up
@@Purni1997 aawwww, what a good point. For four years, and even now-45 says anything he wants to with zero repercussion. And then a comedian is found to have changed some details in his story telling & the New Yorker is willing to end his career. That really is a shame. I feel like it also just goes to prove the validity of the points he was trying to get across to begin with.
@@ruthhenry9577 when he showed how they stitched his words together. I've seen that many times. But seriously, when you're writing an article on truth telling, you're gonna have the nerve to curb the truth?? They should be fired.
This is an incredible example of going about, "No, actually, YOU'RE wrong" without coming across as a petulant child. So many cited sources, examples and recordings, it was direct and specific. There was no shifting of blame, distancing language or major attacks of the other side-- literally just cold, hard facts from beginning to end.
Excellent work, Hasan! 🤯👍
Yes, it was crazy like there was *all the documentation*. It would (to my mind) have been normal to just assume that you didn't have to document every bit of your comedy show, and every bit of the interview, but he had tapes and emails ... Probably, if needed, there'll be traces to find on the murder microphone of that "journalist" and fingerprints ...
What was this? Is her dad an agent who told her they never slammed Muslim teenagers against anything? What's her motivation for dragging Hasan through the mud?
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@@cnj67 Distorting information so that we all go WTF is exactly what the media does. Today, Hasan was their target, because they knew their spin on the truth would get people worked up. And it did. For a minute.
But in a world where everyone can have a platform for their truth to be shared, and when they choose someone as intelligent and thoughtful as Hasan-- welp, their bullshit got exposed like the roaches they are. 🤷♀️
You don't need to explain yourself Hassan. We trust you and your creative choices. Stay strong 🙌
Holy cow I can't believe you have to explain yourself! I saw you last night at the Chicago theatre and it was AWESOME!
this is one of the best celebrity responses to a “scandal” that I’ve ever seen. The way you have moved forward with grace, honesty, and thoughtfulness is very impressive and appreciated. keep doing what you’re doing! 💗💗💗
Yes, and no. This buzzword "emotional truth" just rubs me the wrong way. It sets a bad precedent and dissloves the meaning of thruth to a milky mess.
@@serge-etiennefreytag332The "bad precedent" is at least as old as the 2001 Bush Administration.
Exactly, and then on top of it it’s a perfect illustration for all of us to see how reality is distorted by The Media
You're telling me 100% of standup comedians told the truth 100% of the time until him? C'mon. Just saw him last week, he addressed it there and the audience proudly cheered for him to keep doing his thing. You rock bro, keep doing your thing.
nobody expects comedians to be just telling the truth,nobody. its amazing how easily people can be convinced that something they never cared about before is suddenly a bad thing.
I think Hasan said it best himself in the end... there is a different expectation with "funny political commitator" vs. "Comedian"... he may realize now that freely switching between those roles is not a viable option.
You mean the Rabbi, Priest and Imam didn't go for a drink? I'm crushed.
Typical hypocrite.
Nonsense.
How many times did he bring up racism during that set?
We stand by you buddy 💯💯❤️❤️🙏🙏
Hassan, please continue your show on your UA-cam and see how it blows. Nobody cares about the New Yorker. Who even reads them?! You have our support!
I was rooting for you to be the next host of The Daily Show. This absolute hit piece seems clearly calculated to kill that possibility. Im so sorry you got smeared like this. You are an amazing person, and I wish you all the best in your continuing career.
Me too it is so disgusting
Me three! I love how he pulls you into the stories.
I mean we might be able to get jon steward back i would take that over this pos
@@Tolandruth ---Did you really call Hasan Minhaj a PoS after listening to what he said? Or did you come to the comment section to be an edgy, racist edgelord? What the f#ck is wrong with you? Are you a klansman or neo-nazi, or is racism just a hobby for you? The ONLY thing you can object to in this video (if you even watched it) is Hasan Minhaj himself, which means you're being a racist. Just....why?
It's so odd to me that anyone takes standup routines as sworn testimony, "fact checks" them, and then tries to take down someone's entire career as if they lied under oath. I always thought the New Yorker had actual journalists.
THE most accurate and articulated description of the video. Thank you so much!
Meanwhile our congressional overview of a character for the purpose of granting him the highest legal authority of the land for life just "takes his word for it." A white man can just say "I don't recall" while a brown one brings receipts that end up under the rug.
Bc they’ve been trying to silence and take Hasan down for years. It was an opportunity they thought would “cancel” him enough into a corner. I’m so glad he stayed true to himself and now brought his receipts.
New yorker is trash.
Right. They were just out to get him.
This is so sad that he has to do this. These reporters will write anything to get a by line. This is why you always keep receipts in life.
White Karen writes hit piece on immigrant. This should be the next comedy special.
This is one of the first times I've seen an apology video responded with, "YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO APOLOGIZE FOR!" You're awesome. You did this right.
Weell done for putting this out 👍
Which is why its a good thing it is titled as "Response" not "Apology" - as people would generalize that he lied. But he still apologies for things he should not have to.
Wow this is absolutely incredible and shocking how misleading the reporting has been. My mind has completely changed on this topic. Hasan you have my full support. The New Yorker should be ashamed.
Don’t be so dumb
Nah, the reporting hasn't been misleading. He's just a manipulative liar and explaining a lie doesn't excuse the lie.
@@blastermaster5009dude, he gives proof against the main, most damning allegations the article makes. The rest of the ‘lies’ were literally him presenting facts in a way that’s fit for a stand up comedy show. None of those mislead people to any serious extent or hurts anyone. Really, the worst thing here is him narrating a story about being confronted by a specific fbi informant, and even then, though the details weren’t factual, the actual incident was.
True, but I'm hoping it becomes a great story in the next stand-up!
It's almost too ridiculous to believe that a group proudly reporting on the truth of a comedic stand up special where emotions come first as if it were a bad thing, would do the SAME THING to put emotion first, by twisting the truth! They tried to pain.t him poorly while literally taking the same steps for clicks and to generate buzz. Except unlike Hasan's changes, theirs were clearly meant, or at least, capable, of doing damage!
@@achyuthansanal Nobody threw anything at his daughter and he’s not a comedian. Just a loser trying to appeal to dumbasses
Big respect Hassan Minhaj
It's wild to me how it was more upsetting to people that he embellished than it was that the core facts (girl's family rejecting him because racism, white powder being sent, etc) were true. Hard to tell whether it's people looking for an excuse to hate, media illiteracy, or both.
Not once did I ever think comedians were telling true stories. I always saw them as great storytellers providing us with moments of laughter and relatable situations. The amount of effort placed on fact checking comedians needs to be placed on our government!
Are you out of your mind. He not just an artist. The guy is a left wing propaganda machine.He made up stories of fake discrimination to support his left wing narratives. Which is not a very good thing. Comedy is different. That was straight up manipulation.
But he is not a comedian. He is a story teller.
They're not "relatable situatuons" if they never happened.
Black supremacist fragility experts who spout "Wypeepo fauwt!" and pretend they're a "comedian" with "punchlines" are political grifters who need monitoring. You don't care because you're a modernized "Wypeepo fauwt!" supremacist too. Or your just too stupid to fully understand the English language. Learned to talk as a parlor trick like a parrot.🤣🤙
@@navernoGet a life!
As a fiction writer, I totally get it and I’m baffled that the New Yorker would even do such a piece.
he Iied about his own chiId to miIIions of people. Jimmy Kimmel bragged about yelling and making his kid cry. what is wrong with you people? cant you just start protecting your kid's privacy...?
I can not in good conscience trust that you get this or are baffled by it. The things you write are a fiction. You are probably a psycho. I am just writing the facts.
Thank goodness we have The New Yorker to write stories without a biased slant to them. Praise sanity!
No one is, that is why people do not trust the news, media and political leaders anymore.
Drama sells.
I cannot believe comedians today need to explain themselves not just to frontline media, but also to the social media police! 😢
thats not the issue. no one ever said they thought comedians told the truth. the point is he fabricated stories being a 'comedian' to enhance victim hood not to make it funnier. that was the original criticism and he admits it.
@@Shiggystardustcomedians owe the audience 0 truth. Whole thing could be a lie. Doesn’t matter. 🤷🏾♀️
@@boitshekomyataza8113 did u read mu comment??? Comedians aren’t about increasing victimhood and cirtue signal. That’s what activist do. He’s becoming Hannah gadsby. He got caught. Took him 7 weeks to come back with “receipts”. If this was at all true he could have made this in a week.
Maaan u r doing a great job ❤❤ Finger crossed from Morocco
The irony for me is that she accuses Hasan of trying to enhance his career by telling lies. Meanwhile she is the one that clearly is attempting to do that for herself by writing this misleading article.😒
In my opinion you did NOTHING wrong. Keep going and do what you do!🙏🏽💝
How true!
"Let's take this brown artist playing the victim card and expose him in a witch hunt, in a crusade we don't tipically wage against, y'know, white artists"
They made him suffer racism while probing to prove he hadn't.
Yes, there is nothing similar between stand up comedian jokes that might be made up and a serious article attacking a real person integrity!
I didn’t know that standup comedian has to experience all the stories they talk about!
She ia clearly a jealous Karen
I miss the Patriot Act ❤
Whether these 3 stories were your truth or not, they have happened to a brown kid in this country. Comedy is storytelling and adding “spice” to real stories; it’s to immerse in a story and laugh
Patriot Act is still going strong
@sagisli The Show or the legislation? Cuz the show stopped I'm pretty sure
@@Rahat2056 The legislation, I thought that's what she was talking about. I forgot about the show. Thanks for pointing it out.
@peruzdawoudi4980: Sorry about that, I completely forgot about the show, my mind went immediately to politics.
@@sagisli it expired in 2020
Hassan, of course we don't know you personally, but you are amazing, we feel the sincerity shining from you...
The media should not distort your wonderful show in such an ugly way, the story is inspiring and hopeful and it is something that must be heard more, so thank you for your bravery.❤
Autocracy is coming to take our freedom of speech and our understanding of artistic expression. They start with what they believe to be low hanging fruit. Many thanks to you, Hasan, for defending your liberty. Our minds are too strong to fold to these threats, antics, and attempts at defamation to bolster cancel culture.
Imagine if they could put politicians under the same scope as they do to comedians, what a weird world that would have been
Well said!
THEY DO.
So making up hate crimes is no big deal makes sense 😅
@@2LiFt3DxOwhen exactly did he do that? My takeaway is that in his stand-up routines occasionally there are specifics that are changed or the story is told as though it happened to him when he was more incidentally involved but the base events are all real, however in his series and specials all the facts are unadulterated.
"A lot of people have been asking my opinions on thousands of people dying in the Middle-East, but I want to talk about ME...and how I'M the victim."
Hasan- you are a gifted storyteller. You give us hard and painful truths wrapped in a giggle. Those painful truths are hard to swallow, traumatic to carry, and difficult to talk about. Your gift is making those painful truths easier for us to carry together, to talk about together, and hopefully someday work through together. YOU are a special type of healer/therapist that helps us cope with societal trauma. THANK YOU!!! Much Love and Respect for you and the gifts you share with us!!!
Hasan is the prime example of showing up is 90% of success
They literally aren't truths...
@@ems3991 Dude did you watch the video on mute? He said they DID happen, he just embellishes for the beat my guy. That's comedy. They're his truths.
well said
Taking this all in and I just hope HM actually reads these comments because I want to acknowledge how hurtful it can feel when organizations, journalists, etc. not only present in a somewhat false manner (when speaking to you face to face) then break trust, but also take your words out of context to create a false narrative that serves their own needs. It's dangerous and it has the potential to ruin one's life/health/career trajectory. This happened to me as well and I just want to say that your emotions are completely valid. These types of occurrences need to be called out because they pose a high risk for psychological ramifications. Thank you for sharing. I hope that one day I can be as courageous as you when speaking up against injustices.
There's a reason that in many stand-up specials comedians are often in the middle of a bit and they turned to the audience and before a major part they say "and this part is 100% true" and then say part of the bit. They do that because it's quite obvious that comedy bits are nuggets of truth with comedic embellishment for the purpose of entertainment and storytelling
I always found something mildly ridiculous about this whole thing. Are there people out there who expect comedy shows to be full of true stories? I always operated on the assumption that every story was full of artistic license and exaggerations because life doesn't follow a setup-punchline structure.
when you use real people in your stories, that's the equivalent to doxxing.
True I’m confused! Are all standup comedian stories real or happened to them ?!
I don’t think it was necessarily that every single thing needed to be true and that that was why people were mad. I think it was just that the emotional connections he made with the audience was built on shared experiences of racism, and so when it was made to seem like those experiences were falsified, it felt that he "faked" experiences of racism just to get a connection with the audience. It not necessarily that the jokes weren’t true, it was that the stories they were based on weren’t.
Most people understand the artistic license that comes with a comedian's stand-up, and "Comedian bends truth to make funnier jokes" isn't a very compelling story. The journalists from The New Yorker are savvy professionals, and everything in how their piece is written is meant to heavily imply that because of this you can't trust his political work like Patriot Act.
I’m also shocked. Since when do we consider stand up comedy jokes as all facts? While the language used is rhetorical, I’ve always viewed it as something similar to a play, a story, or a song where its clear that the author took inspiration from certain events in their life and created a script to deliver jokes.
I always assumed that most comedians embellish their story not only to captivate the audience but also drive the point home
this - when I read that article I thought - someone thinks all comedy stories are 100% facts???
@@JasminaSin35 he ruined a girl's life and tried to embarrassed her. she faced death threats for years because of him.
@@htbostonYou didn't pay "good" attention to the details in the video,did you?
Are you proud of how the "girl's" parents treated Hassan?
Be rather thankful for him protecting her identity.
@@htboston you clearly decided to comment without watching this.
Bingo!
Ive always thought comedians, in any shape or form, were never as serious as I thought them out to be and this is mainly because of my mental immaturity. But as the tides across the world changes drastically, I started to realize the work these gems have put, even if it's done as a joke or satire, which compliments my mode of thinking a lot. Their work now is more credible than any news or journalist outlet we have today. Keep up the great work Hasan. Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇮🇳
Bruh, you're good. You're a professional storyteller who makes people laugh. I don't go home thinking, 'Was that story true?' I go home and say, 'He's funny.'
i honestly respect that you took the time to respond, it gives you time to deliver a more meaningful and fleshed out response. It's honestly ridiculous that you're having to explain basic comedy writing for people who are deliberately missing the point.
Or, it's very odd that he's spending this much effort to debunk claims that he previously admitted were true. Protesting his exposure as a liar isn't going to get him back in the running for The Daily Show.
It's crazy how The New Yorker reporter Clare Malone clearly twisted his words to make it seem like a muslim wasn't "actually" affected by racism, just because the racist event happened a few days before he said it happened (which she "forgot" to include in her flashy clickbait article). What an evil woman with a horrible agenda.
@@mjredderokay so what if he lied ?
@@mjredder Wait... Your argument is that if someone is attacked and a news outlet only gives half the info - that person should NOT provide the evidence of the news outlet leaving out important context? WOW! That says more about YOU than you think.
@@garethharriott9582Exactly, he's a f*cking comedian people!!! This whole thing is completely insane! Shame on the journalist that wrote this "hit piece"!!!!!!!!!! We, as Americans, should be on notice! If this can happen to Hasan, it can happen to anyone!!!
As a big fan of Hasan, I was really struggling with the article. I appreciate the thoughtfulness, sincerity and self-reflection. I will be passing this video along to some of my coworkers who had written him off.
Really? He's an ENTERTAINOR
I struggled a bit too as this article came out and all the outlets were talking about it. I'm grateful to hear from Hasan on it.
This is damage control by Hasan.
@@DeltaV-sayno2CCPDamage control for what? It was a comedy special. This whole mess is just white people trying to gaslight Hasan. Take a break.
@@DeltaV-sayno2CCPyes, but he’s not asking you to trust him. He’s bringing receipts!
I think someone should do an investigation on whether Eddie Murphy's Aunt Bunny actually fell down the stairs for 5 solid minutes at every cookout, if she ever got her shoe back, and how she's living now.
Can’t imagine how the New Yorker would have dealt with “factchecking” Mark Twain.
As soon as I heard about that story, I thought, no way are we cancelling Hasan. Everyone knows and expects comics to embellish and re-imagine stories so they hit more effectively in a standup set. That's why comedy is an art form, not a peer-reviewed journal. It infurates me that Hasan didn't get the Daily Show over this because he was absolutely the best. Thank you for this video and I wish you hadn't had to make it. You deserve so much better.
This is why he didn’t get the daily show? If that’s true I wholeheartedly believe someone set him up so he wouldn’t get it
Viacom is notorious for being cheap and difficult to work with. Many report they say "bring your own suits" when on the show. Hasan can probably make more with other projects.
I mean the standup was a bit more than an art form and became political after he brought up things that many young immigrants/ children of immigrants can relate to on a personal level. Yeah I don't care when comics very obviously embellish stories but idk it was disappointing to feel like I felt an emotional response over lies
Honestly he's too good for the daily show. They real watered it down after Jon left. And look what they did to john on Apple, cancelled again for being too truthful. Imagine how long Hasan would've lasted on the daily show.
@@asmaa___ i hear what you are saying, however, is "lies" really an accurate portrayal? these instances were not made up out of whole cloth. these were situations he found himself in in his life, artistically changed and embellished to be more entertaining and affect people on a deeper level. but it's not like he just made it up.
This apology is exactly why i was so hoping that Hassan wld be the next host for the Daily Show.
Facts, sincerity, humor and intelligence both mental and emotional. Thank you Hassan for showing us what true character and honesty looks like.
He lied
@@Illumiragedid you even watch this video 💀
@@lyluvsme yep
Haaa people are worshipping a fucking comedian and the one is not even good enough.
Man's jokes start with race and ends with islamophobia
It's the standard that they set that he's far above and yet has ruled him out as a contender. The insanity of it all
A great explanation video, He kept all the facts like emails, messages, and recordings.
This whole video is like Jussie Smollett saying “I portrayed my emotional truths because as an actor, emotions come first and I wanted people to feel what I felt ” 💀