To the average person, the New Yorker’s expose on Hasan Minhaj’s fabrications in his standup routine may be shocking. But none of the three former “Daily Show” staffers who spoke with TheWrap were surprised.
“I’ve been hearing rumblings for a long time,” one former staffer said.
Another noted that Minhaj’s stories in his stand-up always seemed “too perfectly set up.” “There was always this suspicion that maybe this guy’s full of s–t. Maybe he’s exaggerating,” one of the staffers said.
In conversations with former “Daily Show” staffers, media experts and comedy insiders, Minhaj was accused of being “Trumpian,” being unethical, hurting other people of color and “giving white supremacists the supposed proof they need.
