A “bit” sketchy?  That’s sketchy as hell.  Playing the victim when you haven’t actually been victimized is destructive.

You genuinely can’t see the degree of difference between a cheeky twist on the truth in a low-stakes bit and lying about a child exposed to what was potentially anthrax? Serious autobiographical comedy naturally requires a different standard of truthfulness. Imagine if John Mulaney one day just said, “JK, I never did…

He’s losing work that is specifically about him telling facts.

This. Minhaj’s comedy in this particular instance is founded upon the premise that, “This thing happened to me, and now I’m going to dissect it and tell you about it in a humorous way.” His humor is coming from something he claimed had actually happened to him, as opposed to humor deriving from some kind of reducto ad…

Not wishing to be rude or confrontational, but I’m not sure how this contradicts anything I’ve said. My point is that when comedians start outright claiming that their acts and material are based in truth and are using that as the fundamental basis for some kind of political / moral / social point of importance or an…

Also, this statement is, to me, disingenous (in the context of stand-up comedy taken as a whole):

I agree. When your brand of comedy is more social commentary and you’re poking at racial tensions, embellishing/fabricating seems to do more of a disservice when similar events inevitably do happen. As far as he took the prom thing seems to be straight defamation too.

The fact that you can’t tell the difference between telling a “man walks into a bar” joke and what Hasan did is...fairly shocking. 

The problem with Minhaj is that his fabrications go into very creepy, manipulative places.

Hannah Gadsby explicitly states the point in Nanette when she starts talking seriously about what happened to her, and also warns the audience earlier that it’s coming up and going to happen. And she also makes it pretty clear what’s actually happened to her in any preceding jokes.

In general terms perhaps, but I think the situation does become greyer when it comes to the kind of Nanette-eseque “this is My Truth” autobiographical-confessional-didactical strain of stand-up comedy which has become a lot more common of late, where the whole point is that the comedian is supposed to be expounding…

Has she had a single good experience in her whole career? I know these excerpts are trending to the more dramatic stuff to increase interest in the book, but I’m starting to wonder.

The entire backbone of this article is that Joe Jonas is horrible for planting a lie that she parties too much to the media, before ending the article with a link to her partying with Taylor Swift.

I do think Sedaris deserves to be challenged on how he portrays his family and such — but I think there’s a difference in written memoirs we know this is one person’s perspective on what happened and the many biases that go along with it, and what Minhaj has done where he creates these stories casting himself as the…

I think its the content of the lies/embellishments. And the fact that he’s more of a clapter comedian than traditional stand up. Someone like Anthony Jeselnik lies all the time. He’s even said his “uncle” died repeatedly throughout his standups. But the lies are obvious, very silly and not serious and presented in a…

70% emotional truth

He has the “right” politics so they’re glossing over him doxxing a woman for rejecting him in high school.

I don’t care about embellished stories but using irl people and then making shit up about them is not okay, especially if they’re nobodies and ‘you’ have a huge platform. 

And still it is somehow the white community’s fault. Gotcha

What weird responses. This is not “aLl coMedIaNs eMbeLisH”