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The Comedy World’s Brutal Takedowns of Hasan Minhaj’s ‘Emotional Truths’

“The punch line is worth the fictionalized premise,” Hasan Minhaj said of his act, the authenticity of which is currently the subject of much debate. Little did Minhaj know that the punchlines proving the lies’ worth would come from Twitter.

Patriot Act star and frontrunner for the vacant Daily Show hosting job Minhaj is in hot water after a New Yorker writer fact-checked his act and found that he had fabricated a few of the most dramatic, harrowing and impactful anecdotes, including the supposed anthrax attack against his family and his brush with an FBI anti-terrorism scheme. “The emotional truth is first. The factual truth is secondary,” Minhaj told the New Yorker’s Clare Malone, claiming that the explosive stories he has used onstage and in his Netflix specials are meant to illustrate the adversities faced by American Muslims.

The Most Fifth-Grade-Appropriate ‘SNL’ Sketches

Why couldn’t we have had Redditor lizziefreeze for a teacher back when we were in middle school? “If my kids have been exceptionally great, I will randomly share a cool song that they’d otherwise probably not be exposed to,” they wrote in the r/LiveFromNewYork subreddit. “I want to start getting some SNL sketches in there as a reward too, but it can be hard to find ones that are squeaky clean.”

Lizziefreeze already has a list going that includes the school cafeteria classic Lunch Lady Land.

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