My conspiracy brain is thinking that someone at Viacom doesn’t want a permanent host for the Daily Show/plans to slowly kill it and is trying to push away any potential frontrunners. Hence the hit piece on Minhaj and Roy Wood He’s sudden departure.
Well, I didn’t expect this, but I think I’m back on board. He’s been a favorite for years and it hurt to think it was all a lie, but I can swallow this pill and give him the benefit of the doubt if this video is closer to the actual truth.
Wait… comedians make stuff up?
You mean Anthony Jeselnik isn’t really a horrible asshole?
/s
Comedians make stuff up to make their stories more funny. Minhaj was making stuff up to make himself seem more like a victim. There were no punchlines in his anthrax story. Lying about his daughter being exposed to anthrax did nothing to make his special funnier.
God I love being vindicated. Thanks Hasan!
This sub is full of reactionaries. Ironic.
Everyone that was dragging his name should be embarrassed. Y’all let one article warp your perspective so dramatically.
I sort of agree, but it wasn’t just “one article.” Every news outlet was reporting on what that “one article” said. It made it seem so true. Like go back on YouTube and search for “Hasan Minhaj” and you’ll see all these stories from a month ago blatantly parrot what the New Yorker said. So now that becomes a “corroborating story.” Then there’s another and another, and for 2 weeks straight all you see in the news is, “Hasan is a Fucking Liar.”
But the real damage from all of that is that there are these people that can’t change their view back to what it was. Like Hasan can never explain enough details about his personal life to ever come back into their good grace. Hopefully, people at TDS aren’t like that.
I don’t think any performer should owe their personal lives to the rest of us like this. The premise of the article was bull, and it sucks that Hasan has had to reveal what he is allowed to keep private.
I think media today is super untrustworthy. Most media outlets frenzy when they see blood in the water. I think average people need to wake up and not get swept into the feeding frenzy. This kind of thing is happening too often for us not to keep our eyes open. At the end of the day, they all want our money and attention, and don’t care about who they need to sacrifice to the public to get that.
He definitely had receipts for the prom story but, oh man, did he not clear himself of the FBI or anthrax bits. His explanation of his thought process for embellishing those bits made him sound like a pathological liar. Like dude, the experiences you said that actually happened to you in this apology video sound interesting enough. But you obviously thought you had to take experiences from others or make them up to sound more like a victim.
Also him saying that his standup self is a different “character” than his correspondent self is a very Fox News thing to say. Like how Fox News says their “real news shows” are during the day and their “opinion news shows” start at 8pm and viewers should just know the difference without a warning.
Also him saying that his standup self is a different “character” than his correspondent self is a very Fox News thing to say.
It’s a very Daily Show thing to say. It’s not like Ronny Chieng, Desi Lydic, Michael Kosta, Lewis Black, etc aren’t play a character when they’re on the show.
The only minor changes he made were used to make it a cleaner story to deliver in front of the audience. You can claim he shouldn’t have done this, but it most certainly was not his intention to make himself sound like more of a victim.
So, F😂x and T🤪Cker can lie all they want on a NEWS channel but a judge found that it was ENTERTAINMENT and that no reasonable person would believe it…😭😭😭
But a comedian can’t embellish his story without getting bitch slapped by the New Yorker!?! WTF?
He should still probably address the bad work place allegations on Patriot Act.
I don’t think the original article served the public good…
Remember when Aziz Anzari was raked over the coals for a few weeks because HE HAD A BAD DATE WITH A WOMAN?!
This still pisses me off when I think about it. The author has no repercussions for writing such a dumb ass article.
I like that he pointed out that he’d think differently about someone if he read that article. I’m happy I can like Hasaan again but am mad at myself for taking modern journalism to heart before hearing a response. Unfortunately, I also get the writers motivation. This article would’ve never gotten so much attention if it had been the in depth fluff piece Minaj thought it would be. We all suck.
It’s a really bummer that she got to do a piece on this guy, and this was the best angle she could come up with.
If someone is gonna bend the truth to entertain me, I will gladly choose a freaking comedian doing a bit over a journalist. For a show, there is an implicit agreement that the audience will suspend disbelief so that they might be entertained. I shouldn’t have to have the same agreement with a journalist. I’m beginning to think that journalists actually needs to put “fact based fiction writer” as their tagline so we can actually know what we are getting in to.
Hasan hosting would make the Daily Show cool again. This controversy sucks but he’s still the best option.
I hope they continue the trial runs and eventually reconsider if they can’t find someone who is clearly as good or better.
Commenting to watch later. He would have been the ideal host imo
I think everyone needs to leverage their identity to some degree to get ahead of even just make it in this world. We all walk out our doors and put on some sort of mask bc we know being ourselves would be a disadvantage.
Perhaps there are some people that are so secure and/or privileged that this is just never a concern of theirs. But, if Jeff Besos can be as rich as he is while some of his workers can’t get enough break time to both eat lunch and take a piss, then I am willing to accept that Hasan is using what he has to his best advantage to get ahead. Yes it’s a bit exploitative, but it’s the game we are all playing here.
Don’t hate the player hate the game.