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Hasan Minhaj

Co-Founder & CEO, 186K Films · 1 appearance on the record.

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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.

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1 assertion · 2 opinions · 7 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Hasan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Everything Hasan Minhaj said on My First Million that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
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…”
Hasan Minhaj Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 37:37 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
Opinion
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…”
Hasan Minhaj Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 1:03:21 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
Insight
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…”
Hasan Minhaj Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 1:27:38 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
Opinion
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.”
Hasan Minhaj Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 5:55 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
Insight
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…”
Hasan Minhaj Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 26:40 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
Insight
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.”
Hasan Minhaj Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 41:05 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
Insight
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?”
Hasan Minhaj Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 58:48 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
Insight
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,…”
Hasan Minhaj Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 1:31:47 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
Disclosure
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 Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 15:07 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
Disclosure
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.”
Hasan Minhaj Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 1:06:12 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Hasan Minhaj Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 1:13:12 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
Insight
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…”
Hasan Minhaj Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 6:31 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money

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 on My First Million. 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)

Opinion
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…”
Shaan Puri Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 12:46 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
Insight
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 Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 3:55 5 Random But Useful Things I Learned At A Private Equity Conference
Insight
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…”
Shaan Puri May 24, 2024 ▶ 14:30 How To Master Storytelling ft. David Perell
Insight
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…”
Shaan Puri Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 51:32 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
Insight
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…”
Shaan Puri Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 1:53:05 Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money

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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

Appearances (1)

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Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money Dec 15, 2021 46m
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