Comedian Hasan Minhaj pushed back against a recent New Yorker article accusing him making up details about his personal life in several of his comedy specials.
entrapment and personal threats. For many of his fans, he has become an avatar for the power of representation in entertainment."
She wrote that Minhaj said,"Every story in my style is built around a seed of truth. My comedy Arnold Palmer is seventy per cent emotional truth—this happened—and then thirty per cent hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction." The author then recounted Minhaj’s"story of a letter sent to his home which was filled with white powder." As he told it,"The contents accidently spilled onto his young daughter. The child was rushed to the hospital. It turned out not to be anthrax, but it’s a sobering reminder that Minhaj’s comedic actions have real-world consequences."
"Front-desk and mailroom employees at Minhaj’s former residence don’t remember such an incident, nor do ‘Patriot Act’ employees involved with the show’s security or Minhaj’s security guard from the time," Malone wrote.
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