Hasan Minhaj, a stand-up comedian and former “Patriot Act” host, called the New Yorker profile of him “needlessly misleading.” The writer disagrees.
Hasan Minhaj at the premiere for “No Hard Feelings” at AMC Lincoln Square on June 20 in New York. Hasan Minhaj, a stand-up comedian known for “Patriot Act” and “The Daily Show,” fired back at the New Yorker this week after the magazine reported that he made up details in emotionally gripping personal stories that are a feature of his acts.
The magazine interviewed the woman and reported that “she’d turned down Minhaj, who was then a close friend, in person, days before the dance.” The story said Minhaj acknowledged that what he thought was anthrax, leading him to rush his daughter to the hospital after she was exposed to the substance.“Minhaj admitted that his daughter had never been exposed to a white powder, and that she hadn’t been hospitalized,” the New Yorker wrote. “He had opened up a letter delivered to his apartment, he said, and it had contained some sort of powder.
As for the supposed anthrax scare, Minhaj said that he realized shortly after opening a letter that the white powder inside wasn’t anthrax and that the powder never touched his daughter, though the incident did prompt an argument between him and wife about their family’s safety. Embellishing the story, he said, helped him emphasize how the danger he felt he was in after he commented in “Patriot Act” on Saudi Arabia and the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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