Hasan Minhaj
Co-Founder & CEO, 186K Films. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Hasan Minhaj is a comedian and actor who created and hosted the Netflix series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj and released specials including Homecoming King. He previously served as a senior correspondent on The Daily Show and produces projects through 186K Films.
Everything Hasan Minhaj said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Minhaj: Anonymous online trolls can impose real economic sanctions on public figures
“For the first time in history,
There are people that stand on stage that stand on the stage of business or life or comedy or art, and they use their actual government name and then pseudonymous trolls who don't use their government name can launch digital dron…”
Minhaj: Show business is predatory and relies on artists not owning IP
“The way show business works, I think like any business really, but show business specifically is extremely predatory, and it's built on this idea that we provide the labor, and they're kind of banking on you being desperate, dumb, and not owning your IP and co…”
Minhaj: Direct-to-consumer comedy specials fail to acquire new fans without cultural outrage
“Because it was just a closed network between him and his direct fans, people couldn't get outraged about it, they couldn't write about it, which would then get you to, it would titillate you, and you'd be like, I'm gonna watch it. Which would then get you to w…”
Minhaj: Great stand-up comedians structurally perform funny speech and debate
“All these people that I like, Carlin, they were these critical thinkers that kind of were doing speech and debate, presenting an argument or a take, and it just was a light bulb moment.”
Minhaj: Performers should control room tempo rather than matching high crowd energy
“When I'm opening in front of my crowd, they're like really hot, and one of the things I try to remember is, don't yell, don't scream. Try to actually bring them to you. Like set the tempo of the game. Don't get like too excited or too hot. Like you can whip th…”
Minhaj: Social platforms commodify and incentivize shitposting and absolutist negativity
“Shitposting is now incentivized. So actually being a negative Nancy and being an absolutist in your position
Is now commodified and incentivized so that you can't even recognize, yo, you won, I lost, good, good game.”
Minhaj: Great comedy requires a clear philosophical take before writing jokes
“It's all about your take. What is your take? And being able to back it up. So it's not even being funny first. It's what is the take? What am I trying to say? What is the take? What am I philosophically artistically trying to say?”
Minhaj: Anyone criticizing a creative idea must pitch an alternative joke
“You can only tear something down, and this also works with movie writing and script writing. If you tear something down, you gotta pitch an alt. Don't just shit on the idea. Pitch an alt. And what's the alt joke? What's the alt take? Otherwise, sit down. Like,…”
Minhaj: Combining stand-up, storytelling, and theater is his creative elixir
“Putting together, mixing stand-up comedy, storytelling, and theater, that to me was my elixir.”
Hasan Minhaj owns his comedy tour show, stage sets, and equipment outright
“So the show you saw, I own it outright. I, I'm not just in the comedy business. I'm in the trucking business. Like I own and operate that 18 wheel truck. Those lights, those, like the, there's the holodeck that I'm standing on that glows. Like I own it.”
Minhaj's stand-up tour burns $40,000 a week on labor and trucking
“The show that you saw, the burn to run it, Man is almost 40 grand a week just in labor costs, trucking costs, getting it to venue to venue.”
Minhaj: Adulthood is largely about identifying where your natural aptitude lies
“Your parents will put you in soccer, or basketball, or swimming, and you're like, ah, there's always that kid from just the first drill picks it up fast, and so much of adult life is figuring out what's my thing that I pick up fast like that, and that was that…”
The other half of the tape: Hasan Minhaj's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 71 times in 15 episodes across the shows. 5 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Shaan Puri 41Sam Parr 23Noah Kagan 1
Statements about Hasan Minhaj, by other people (5)
Puri: Hasan Minhaj succeeds through intense craftsmanship rather than natural humor
“You seem to me like somebody who isn't the naturalist, naturally isn't the funniest guy. Like, some comedians, you just see it, you're like, dude, they could just be doing this at their dinner room, dinner table, and they're just probably slaying whatever room…”
Puri: Self-deprecation and low-status humor best connect with an audience
“Comedy is a low-status art form, meaning self-deprecation. Make fun of yourself. Call yourself out. Poke fun at yourself. That is how you connect with people.”
Shaan Puri: Audience Connection Comes From Vulnerability and Low Status
“He goes, comedy is a low status game. So he goes, you know, you're going to be up on stage and you're nervous, so your natural tendency is going to be to puff your chest out to kind of project this false bravado. But he's like actually what you want to do is b…”
Puri: Digital accountability requires a consistent identity, not a real legal name
“It doesn't matter if that name was Mr. Gubapel or it was Hasan. It doesn't really matter what's a real name. It's wherever you're, whatever you're gonna make accountable, you're gonna say, hey, if you like me, if you trust me, put my reputation on this name. A…”
Puri: Entertainers should optimize their careers like Silicon Valley product funnels
“Just like any product in Silicon Valley, you create a funnel. Top of funnel is new fans, new eyeballs. How are you gonna go get them? You need a strategy. Middle of the funnel. How are you gonna get them to get their first taste of you, their first real experi…”
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
My First Million 71
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 32 mentions in 3 episodes 11 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2021 27 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
- This Year's Best Twitter Accounts to Follow
- The Milly Awards 2021
- The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht
- The $5M Question, The Company You Would Build If You Had the Time, VR Therapy, and More
- Fitness Hotels, Steel-Manning, and Why the Creator Economy is Overhyped
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Hasan's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Co-Founder & CEO, 186K Films | 1 | 12 | — | full record on My First Million → |