Last year, now very famous comedian Hassan Minhaj shared a video on twitter reliving the moment when he was hired by John Stewart on the daily show. This was the first big break that that brought this incredibly funny guy to the world.
But his success story goes far beyond and ahead of this big break. Born to Indian parents who migrated to the US, Minhaj became interested in comedy after seeing Chris Rock's Never Scared, the first stand-up special he watched.
He began traveling to San Francisco to perform, then moving to Los Angeles in 2009 to perform on NBC's Stand-up for Diversity, on which he was a finalist. Minhaj also appeared in guest roles on Arrested Development and Getting On. He hosted Stand Up Planet in 2013 and a web series, The Truth with Hasan Minhaj, in 2014.
November 19, 2014, Minhaj joined The Daily Show after he sent in a tape of him performing an idea for a Daily Show segment. Minhaj's one-man show, Homecoming King, debuted Off-Broadway in October 2015. Another high of his career came in 2017 featured speaker at the 2017 White House Correspondents' Dinner, where he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump, who was boycotting the dinner, calling him the "liar in chief," and reminded the press to do their job.
And in 2018, Netflix announced that Minhaj would host his own weekly entitled Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, which has been received with an equal amount of love and backlash due to it’s explores the modern cultural and political landscape, including the one in India. The one thing that has been proven well though is that you can love or hate Minhaj Hassan but you cannot ignore him.
