September 29, 2023 • A recent New Yorker piece on Hasan Minhaj found that some crucial bits of his stand-up act did not stand up to fact-checking. Stretching the reality in comedy is par for the course, however how does that work for a figure like Minhaj, who’d previously doubled down on these tales in interviews and is understood for his political satire shows? Brittany is joined by writer Imran Siddiquee and journalist Allana Akhtar to make sense of an leisure industry that created the conditions for his fame. Performing Arts News, interviews, and commentary on theater, the humanities, music, …