Kulturkampf

[Polident]

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

The best bit is turning a prom rejection into an elaborate story about how the girl and her family are racist and anti islam. Briefly using her real photo in his act. Providing enough background for her to get doxed and harassed. Not for a punchline but to engender some sort of guilt. Yakov Smirnoff would never.