An entire generation wrote this article!? I only see one name credited.

I can’t help but think the whole “all comics embellish the truth” defense is letting him, and frankly comics, off to easy, but maybe I’m primed by these times of emotional truths leading the way. It’s more or less the modern comic mode, to be “truthtellers”, but Minhaj’s brand is very tied to it. I’ve never liked his…

Roy def needs his own show.

Minhaj’s explanation is that comedic scenarios like these hit at “emotional truths” and that “the punchline is worth the fictionalized premise.”

He didn't exactly go to great lengths to conceal her identity either. If you're going to exaggerate or embellish for a joke, at least make the other person unidentifiable. 

And that was my point about David and Tiffany Sedaris. Tiffany was very open and how much she hated David for talking about her and mocking her and embellishing stories about her mental illness, but he still did it. Even after her death, he did it again in his New Yorker essay about her suicide to the point her…

I think your second paragraph is the real problem. I don’t care if he embellishes stories in his comedy, or even if he just straight up lies to help a bit. If the stories are presented as true-ish and implicate real people, I think there’s a different standard. It does seem a little weird that this is coming to a head…

Yeah but his embellishments caused someone to get doxxed and harassed for something that wasn’t true.

He’s also from Florida and he went to a fancy private school. He doesn't sound like that either. 

I understand the impulse to just brush this off because “oh, well all comedians embellish for comic effect”. That was my gut reaction too. But this is a little more than that. For starters, Minhaj is one of those comedians who doesn’t even really tell jokes. He’s a clapter comic who goes up on stage to make points for…

Nah, quite doubtful. The issue here is more the very specific story he told about his daughter - one where the outright fabrication about something kind of big is a weird lie to have made up.

I don’t think any of us expect that comedians are being 100% truthful and I’d even imagine many stories told may be outright…

The premise is stupid. All comedians embellish for effect.

I’ll have to read the New Yorker piece first, but did everyone really think each joke a comedian tells is akin to testimony in a court of law?

He should not get the Daily Show job because he wasn’t even close to being the best candidate. Roy Wood Jr. was the best.

Minhaj’s comedy and persona have always felt “at a distance”; sometimes it’s a pretentious air couched in a superiority complex where he seems to float above us all who don’t do comedy, and other times it’s a guarded sense of otherism where he seems to call out his own audience (as you said, mainly White liberals)…

Sending sexually explicit images of someone to their partner or loved one for to get back at them... sounds like renege porn.

But Hussain never got out of his car, having become suspicious of the circumstances. As the two drove away from the parking lot in the early hours of the morning

Of course, She has to be the prettiest one in the relationship.

My time has come

He played Spongebob in the Broadway musical.