The New Yorkerのインスタグラム(newyorkermag) - 9月16日 04時00分

Hasan Minhaj has been praised for his blend of autobiographical storytelling and social-justice commentary, which is on display in two successful Netflix specials. The comedian’s standup leans heavily on Minhaj’s own harrowing experiences as an Asian American and Muslim American. But are all the stories that he’s told on stage true?

No, he recently acknowledged, for the first time, to Clare Malone. 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 70% emotional truth—this happened—and then 30% per cent hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction.” Minhaj argued that the broader points he was trying to make justified concocting stories in which to deliver them. “The punch line is worth the fictionalized premise,” he said. But when fibs are told to prove a social point rather than to elicit an easy laugh, does their moral weight change? Read more at the link in our bio. Illustration by Richard Chance (@richchane).

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