Are you ready for a Hasan Minhaj comeback?

[thebadunkadunk]

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
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[pantless_deacon]

Here for it. He was fucked over.

[bussyriot420]

Wait... the storyteller got in trouble for telling stories?

[slaughtermatic]

about his baby being in contact with anghrax and a woman being racist to him and showing her picture live yeah. those were some doozies.

[pantless_deacon]

Only, that's not what happened.

[slaughtermatic]

okay, what happened then?

[nyse]

I don’t know him personally and am neutral on him professionally, so these just come off as non-problems and this type of public introspection rings so hollow and as just another performance. It’s especially hard to empathize or take seriously after Marcellus Williams’ execution and what’s been coming to light about Diddy if we’re talking about men in the spotlight this week. Like this is not the silly celeb story/profile that can temporarily mask the bad taste of this timeline we’re in at the moment.

[tetrazzinichikn]

Wut

[backtoblack]

God that New Yorker article being such a mess that it blew over the hostile workplace allegations was so disappointing.

[floatinglately]

i came in here to say this basically… i don’t have a super strong opinion either way on the Truth In Stand-Up question and while i get thinking he crossed certain lines there to me it’s just not the kind of sin i feel the need to write someone off for permanently. so i agree with him that he does not need to be “redeemed” for blurring the lines in his performance and having different beliefs about what degree of fabrication is acceptable given the topic, his very fact-based other gig, etc…. but the workplace issues seemed pretty bad!!

[deerlike]

Yeah, I'm irritated that by the racist and dishonest framing of the New Yorker article, but I'm also irritated by his poor stewardship of the show's work environment and how it was never properly addressed. I hope he's since become a better boss, especially to his poc and woc employees.

[juunanagou18]

that's what i came here for like, wait what happened to the workplace issues? and how they were mainly happening to his female staff of color?

[nomoneyfun]

"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."

Bruh, keep it.

[sassandthecity]

Even if he had a point, people need to stop using racist and prejudiced interchangeably

[chll51]

It's astounding when people can't tell the difference. That's probably why they believe reverse racism is a thing.

[sassandthecity]

I personally blame Avenue Q's Everybody's a Little Racist