Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/hasan-minhajs-emotional-truths

Some amazingly brazen stuff in there.

When we met on a recent afternoon, at a comedy club in the West Village, Minhaj acknowledged, for the first time, that many of the anecdotes he related in his Netflix specials were untrue. Still, he said that he stood by his work. “Every story in my style is built around a seed of truth,” he said. “My comedy Arnold Palmer is seventy per cent emotional truth—this happened—and then thirty per cent hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction.”

So it's 0% factual