History Creator / HasanMinhaj

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-->"I've lost a lot of things in my life. I cannot lose my family."

In 2023, he returned to ''The Daily Show'' as a guest host after Creator/TrevorNoah's departure from the show.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, Hasan believes that Bethany was just another racist white BitchInSheepsClothing, as were her parents, for rejecting him as a prom date due to being Indian-Muslim. His father, upon hearing the story, says that Bethany was listening to her parents, who in turn were trying to protect their child from the monster in media and didn't understand the degree of harm they were causing a teenager, and that Bethany should not be hated forever for the pain she caused. Bethany herself says that she was a kid with controlling parents and regretted her silence at the time, knowing that she was a DirtyCoward.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: After agreeing to meet up with Bethany on truce as an adult, Hasan confronts her for how she more or less dumped him and let her parents choose a "better fitting" prom date while making him take the fall for not going to prom with her. Bethany says that she was a kid with controlling parents, but admits there is no excuse for her actions and that she ought to have stood up to them and gone to prom with her actual boyfriend.

* {{Forgiveness}}: Hasan's father encouraged him to forgive Bethany rather than hate her forever. He says that any parent, good or bad-intentioned, would be trying to protect their kids and Bethany shouldn't be blamed for the actions her parents took. Hasan manages it when talking to her, realizing that he was holding a lot of hate about the incident that defined his adulthood for nothing.
* HeelRealization:

** Hasan himself began to realize that he's probably going beyond the pale with the latter-series content and topics of ''Series/PatriotActWithHasanMinhaj'' (especially with increasing amount of BitingTheHandHumour). The line seems to have been a death scare/threat to his wife and child that led [[BewareTheNiceOnes his supportive wife Beena]] [[WhatTheHellHero to finally upbraid him]].
* IronicEcho: Bethany's parents rejected Hasan as their daughter's prom date when he showed up because they wanted "the right fit" for her pictures. When she messaged him a few years later asking for tickets to a comedy set, he used the same phrase to turn her down.

* PapaWolf: As a father of two kids, Hasan acknowledged in ''The King's Jester'' exactly how far he'd go to protect them after serious concern arose between him and his wife over whether he had a line with his jokes. After an incident where he opened a dangerous package that endangered his daughter, likely the result of his initial game plan with ''Patriot Act'' to go after everyone, even powerful dictators, his wife confronted him and told him that she would leave him if he put her kids in danger again. As a result, Hasan comes to terms with his line: taking the joke as far as he can, legally, up to the point that it would hurt his family.

** At one point PlayedForLaughs and exaggerated. Hasan brings up a hedge fund dad named Connor who he knows through his daughter's school several times in the special, at one point detailing a time where Connor bragged to him about his job in strategic acquisitions[[note]]which entails gutting companies and flipping them for a profit[[/note]] for Alden Global Capital (going out of his way to refer to it as a "real job" unlike Hasan's profession) and called his daughter a thief[[note]]Although [[ItMakesSenseInContext his daughter was actively stealing books from the book fair]] at the time[[/note]]. In response, Hasan's next assignment to his producers was to find everything they could about Alden Global Capital, to which they discovered that Connor's boss Randall Smith (the founder of the fund) used the fund's acquisition profits to buy 16 mansions, including one down the street from Jeffrey Epstein. In response to ''this'', Hasan commissioned billboards reading "RANDALL SMITH LOVES PEDOPHILES" to be displayed in every major city that Alden is gutting. He only had them pulled down on the word of his lawyer, and instead opted to do a deep-dive episode on vulture funds and rework the joke so that "Randall Smith ♥ pedophiles" would be presented as a statement that was [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial totally, definitely not true]]. Mind you, all of this was because one of Smith's employees was rude to him and his daughter at a book fair.

* PapaWolf: As a father of two kids, Hasan acknowledged in ''The King's Jester'' exactly how far he'd go to protect them after serious concern arose between him and his wife over whether he had a line with his jokes. After an incident where he accidentally opened a package containing faux anthrax powder that fell on his daughter, likely the result of his initial game plan with ''Patriot Act'' to go after everyone, even powerful dictators, his wife confronted him and stated that she would leave him if he ever put her kids in danger again. As a result, Hasan comes to terms with his line: taking the joke as far as he can, legally, up to the point that it would hurt his family.

** At one point PlayedForLaughs and exaggerated to an insane extent. Hasan brings up a hedge fund dad named Connor who he knows through his daughter's school several times in the special, at one point detailing a time where Connor bragged to him about his job in strategic acquisitions[[note]]which entails gutting companies and flipping them for a profit[[/note]] for Alden Global Capital (going out of his way to refer to it as a "real job" unlike Hasan's profession) and called his daughter a thief[[note]]Although [[ItMakesSenseInContext his daughter was actively dumping books from the book fair into her backpack]] at the time[[/note]]. In response, Hasan's next assignment to his producers was to find everything they could about Alden Global Capital, to which they discovered that Connor's boss Randall Smith (the founder of the fund) used the fund's acquisition profits to buy 16 mansions, including one down the street from Jeffrey Epstein. In response to ''this'', Hasan commissioned billboards reading "RANDALL SMITH LOVES PEDOPHILES" to be displayed in every major city that Alden is gutting. He only had them pulled down on the word of his lawyer, and instead opted to do a deep-dive episode on vulture funds and rework the joke so that "Randall Smith ♥ pedophiles" would be presented as a statement that was [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial totally, definitely not true]]. Mind you, all of this was because one of Smith's employees was rude to him and his daughter at a book fair.

* HeelRealization: Bethany is less than pleased as an adult when she tries to make small talk, and Hasan cuts to the chase, calling her out for destroying his trust in white people and then acting like they're still cool. She manages some apology while also explaining her side of the story.

** At one point PlayedForLaughs and exaggerated to an insane extent. Hasan brings up a hedge fund dad named Connor who he knows through his daughter's school several times in the special, at one point detailing a time where Connor bragged to him about his job in strategic acquisitions[[note]]which entails gutting companies and flipping them for a profit[[/note]] for Alden Global Capital (going out of his way to refer to it as a "real job" unlike Hasan's profession) and called his daughter a thief[[note]]Although [[ItMakesSenseInContext his daughter was actively shoveling books from the book fair into her backpack]] at the time[[/note]]. In response, Hasan's next assignment to his producers was to find everything they could about Alden Global Capital, to which they discovered that Connor's boss Randall Smith (the founder of the fund) used the fund's acquisition profits to buy 16 mansions, including one down the street from Jeffrey Epstein. In response to ''this'', Hasan commissioned billboards reading "RANDALL SMITH LOVES PEDOPHILES" to be displayed in every major city that Alden is gutting. He only backed down on the word of his lawyer, and instead opted to do a deep-dive episode on vulture funds and rework the joke so that "Randall Smith ♥ pedophiles" would be presented as a statement that was [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely not true]]. Mind you, all of this was because one of Smith's employees was rude to him and his daughter at a book fair.

!! Tropes for Hasan Minhaj and ''Homecoming King'' include:

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, Hasan believes that Bethany was just another racist white BitchInSheepsClothing, as were her parents, for rejecting him as a prom date due to being Indian-Muslim. His father on hearing the story says that Bethany was listening to her parents, who in turn were trying to protect their child from the monster in media and didn't understand the degree of harm they were causing a teenager, and that Bethany should not be hated forever for the pain she caused. Bethany herself says that she was a kid with controlling parents and regretted her silence at the time, knowing that she was a DirtyCoward.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Hasan confronts Bethany, after agreeing to meet up with her on truce as an adult, for how she more or less dumped him and let her parents choose a "better fitting" prom date, while making him take the fall for not going to prom with her. Bethany says that she was a kid with controlling parents, but admits there is no excuse for her actions. She says she ought to have stood up to them and gone to prom with her actual boyfriend.

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: The Prom incident was this for both Hasan and Bethany. Hasan was "socially crucified" as he put it because he had promised to go to prom and didn't tell anyone that Bethany's parents found him too dark. It also made him not date white women for a long time because he didn't know whose family would reject him and reveal their racist side. He also holds it against Bethany for a long time, treating her as a BitchInSheepsClothing when she sends him occasional messages on Facebook. Bethany herself admits she was worried she would never get the chance to apologize because what she did was crappy BetrayalByInaction, and Hasan has every right to hold a grudge.

Trump, who had developed an adversarial relationship with the WH press corps, had already proclaimed that he would not attend the dinner. Other, better known, comedians reportedly turned down the gig, and Creator/SamanthaBee even hosted an alternative "Correspondents Dinner" on the same night. Hasan apparently agreed to "not go after the administration" prior to the event, but when he got there, [[https://youtu.be/Z7oG74nHSTQ he went full-throttle]].

Not long after that, Creator/{{Netflix}} came knocking, and his stand-up comedy special ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Minhaj:_Homecoming_King Homecoming King]]'' debuted on the streaming service in May 2017 to critical acclaim, even winning a Peabody Award. ''Series/PatriotActWithHasanMinhaj'', Hasan's own talk show, premiered soon after in October 2018, running for six seasons before being cancelled in August 2020.

* IronicEcho: Bethany's parents rejected Hasan as their daughter's prom date, when he showed up because they wanted "the right fit" for her pictures. When she messaged him a few years later asking for tickets to a comedy set, he used the same phrase to turn her down.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, Hasan believes that Bethany was just another racist white BitchInSheepsClothing, as were for parents, for rejecting him as a prom date due to being Indian-Muslim. His father on hearing the story says that Bethany was listening to her parents, who in turn were trying to protect their child from the monster in media and didn't understand the degree of harm they were causing a teenager, and that Bethany should not be hated forever for the pain she caused. Bethany herself says that she was a kid with controlling parents and regretted her silence at the time, knowing that she was a DirtyCoward.

Hasan Minhaj (born September 23, 1985 in Davis, California) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and television host.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Log Kya Kehenge?"''[[note]]"What will people say?"[[/note]]]]

Not to be confused with Music/NickiMinaj, although...
->"It's 11pm right now. In four hours Donald Trump will be tweeting about how bad Nick Minaj bombed at [[https://youtu.be/Z7oG74nHSTQ this dinner]]. And he'll be doing it ''completely sober''."

-->'''Hasan:''' ''(at the 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner)'' It's 11pm right now. In four hours Donald Trump will be tweeting about how bad Nick Minaj bombed at [[https://youtu.be/Z7oG74nHSTQ this dinner]]. And he'll be doing it ''completely sober''.

He continued as a correspondent after Stewart's retirement on ''Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah'' for a few years. Then, after UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump was elected President of the United States largely on a platform of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, Hasan Minhaj (an Indian-American Muslim) followed in the footsteps of fellow ''Daily Show'' alumni Creator/StephenColbert and Creator/LarryWilmore by hosting the 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner.

President Trump, who had developed an adversarial relationship with the WH press corps, had already proclaimed that he would not attend the dinner. Other, better known, comedians reportedly turned down the gig and Creator/SamanthaBee even hosted an alternative "Correspondents Dinner" on the same night.
-->'''Hasan:''' I would say it is an honour to be here, but that would be an alternative fact... No one wanted to do this and so of course it ends up in the hands of an immigrant. It's how it always goes down.
Hasan apparently agreed to "not go after the administration" prior to the event, but when he got there, [[https://youtu.be/Z7oG74nHSTQ he went full throttle]].

Not long after that, Creator/{{Netflix}} came calling and his stand-up comedy special ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Minhaj:_Homecoming_King Homecoming King]]'' debuted on the streaming service in May 2017 to critical acclaim and won a Peabody award. ''Series/PatriotActWithHasanMinhaj'' soon followed which won a second Peabody award the following year.

Hasan Minhaj (born September 23, 1985) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and television host.

His big break occurred in 2014 when he became the last official correspondent hired by Creator/JonStewart before his retirement from ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'' and Hasan has since gone on to become yet ''another'' relatively unknown comedian that show has springboarded to national and international fame.

He continued as a correspondent after Stewart’s retirement on Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah for a few years. Then, after Donald J Trump was elected President of the United States largely on a platform of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, Hasan Minhaj (an Indian-American Muslim) followed in the footsteps of fellow [[Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart ''Daily Show'']] alumni Creator/StephenColbert and Creator/LarryWilmore by hosting the 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner.

President Trump, who had developed an adversarial relationship with the WH press corps, had already proclaimed that he would not attend the dinner. Other, better known, comedians reportedly turned down the gig and Creator/SamanthaBee even hosted an alternative “Correspondents Dinner” on the same night.
-->'''Hasan''': I would say it is an honour to be here, but that would be an alternative fact... No one wanted to do this and so of course it ends up in the hands of an immigrant. It’s how it always goes down.
Hasan apparently agreed to “not go after the administration” prior to the event, but when he got there, [[https://youtu.be/Z7oG74nHSTQ he went full throttle]].

Not long after that, Creator/NetFlix came calling and his stand-up comedy special ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Minhaj:_Homecoming_King Homecoming King]]'' debuted on the streaming service in May 2017 to critical acclaim and won a Peabody award. ''Series/PatriotActWithHasanMinhaj'' soon followed which won a second Peabody award the following year.

-->'''Hasan''' (at the 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner): It's 11pm right now. In 4 hours Donald Trump will be tweeting about how bad Nick Minaj bombed at [[https://youtu.be/Z7oG74nHSTQ this dinner]]. And he'll be doing it ''completely sober''.

He continued as a correspondent after Stewart’s retirement on Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah for a few years. Then, after Donald J Trump was elected President of the United States largely on a platform of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, Hasan Minhaj (an Indian-American Muslim) followed in the footsteps of fellow ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'' alumni Creator/StephenColbert and Creator/LarryWilmore by hosting the 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner.

President Trump had already developed an adversarial relationship with the WH press corps and proclaimed that he would not attend the dinner. Other, better know comedians reportedly turned down the gig and Creator/SamanthaBee even hosted an alternative “Correspondents Dinner” on the same night.

-->'''Hasan''': It's 11pm right now. In 4 hours Donald Trump will be tweeting about how bad Nick Minaj bombed at [[https://youtu.be/Z7oG74nHSTQ this dinner]]. And he'll be doing it ''completely sober''.

He continued as a correspondent after Stewart’s retirement on Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah. After Donald J Trump was elected President of the United States on a platform of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, Hasan Minhaj (an Indian-American Muslim) followed in the footsteps of fellow ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'' alumni Creator/StephenColbert and Creator/LarryWilmore by hosting the 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner.

He continued as a correspondent after Stewart’s retirement, with Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah. After Donald J Trump was elected President of the United States on a platform of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, Hasan Minhaj (an Indian-American Muslim) followed in the footsteps of fellow ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'' alumni Creator/StephenColbert and Creator/LarryWilmore by hosting the 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner.

His big break occurred in 2014 when he became the last official correspondent hired by Creator/JonStewart before his retirement from ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'' and has since gone on to become yet ''another'' relatively unknown comedian that show has springboarded to national and international fame.

Not long after that, Creator/NetFlix came calling and his stand-up comedy special ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Minhaj:_Homecoming_King Homecoming King]]'' debuted on the streaming service in May 2017 to critical acclaim and won a Peabody award. ''Series/PatriotActWithHasanMinhaj'' soon followed which won a second Peabody award the following year.

He continued as a correspondent after Stewart’s retirement, with Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah. After Donald J Trump was elected President of the United States on a platform of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, Hasan Minhaj (an Indian-American Muslim) followed in the footsteps of fellow Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart alumni Creator/StephenColbert and Creator/LarryWilmore's footsteps by hosting the 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner. Trump had already developed an adversarial relationship with the WH press corps and proclaimed that he would not attend the dinner. Other, better know comedians turned down the gig and Creator/SamanthaBee even hosted an alternative “Correspondents Dinner” on the same night.

Not long after that, Creator/NetFlix came calling and his stand-up comedy special [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Minhaj:_Homecoming_King Homecoming King]] debuted on the streaming service in May 2017 to critical acclaim and won a Peabody award. ’'Series/PatriotActWithHasanMinhaj’' soon followed which won a second Peabody award the following year.

Hasan Minhaj (born September 23, 1985) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. His big break occurred in 2014 when he became the last official correspondent hired by Creator/JonStewart before his retirement from ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart''.