Are you ready for a Hasan Minhaj comeback?

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Introducing our October digital cover star, #HasanMinhaj. The comedian and actor felt the wrath of the Internet and lost a career-defining job amid the controversy. Now he’s back with a YouTube interview series, a Netflix special, and a fresh perspective. https://t.co/IKz9JlWiOR pic.twitter.com/FUtp20LHmA
- Esquire (@esquire) September 25, 2024

A year ago, the New Yorker published a story where Minhaj admitted to making up some of his stand up stories. ONTD post on the article, and ONTD post on his response

The most important part of the interview: No, he has no idea what the It Ends With Us drama was about, everyone was professional on set (yes he was in that movie)

• Yes, that New Yorker article cost him The Daily Show hosting job
• He doesn't see his next moves as a redemption arc or that he needs redeeming
• Most days he works at his production company, 186K Films somewhere in Connecticut
• He still reads The New Yorker
  
• “The most painful thing is my wife and my parents,” he says. “To see them hurt, to see them engage with ‘So I’m reading on the Internet…’-that is so painful. I’m the eldest. I feel really, really sad that I let my parents down."
• Does express some regret and adds “The toughest thing about being a performer,” he adds, “is that everyone is a character in your life. I have to balance that they have to win and I have to lose. You never get it right, you know.”
  
• Comedy is a boy's club- name checked are Jon Stewart, Jon Mulaney, Mike Birbiglia and Ramy Youssef who reached out to him for support. Minhaj is also good friends with Ronny Chieng who helped him
• new Netflix special on the way called Off With His Head, acknowledges he can be insufferable and is trying to show more POVs
• One of those points of view is about what he calls “beige guilt.” Brown people, he says in his new stand-up special, are more racist than white people. “What I was doing was saying, ‘Let me bring you into our community. You think they’re the problem? Oh, we got some problems ourselves,’ ” he says. “We don’t talk about beige guilt and that idea of beige guilt and reconciling paradoxes, like simultaneously I am fighting the problems and I am part of the problem.

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Do you think Minhaj deserves to go quietly into the night like Aziz Ansari and Ellen?