The comedian told The New Yorker recently that some stories he’s told on stage – like harrowing tales about his family and Muslim discrimination post 9/11 – are untrue.
Minhaj said he once had an envelope filled with white powder sent to his home. He said the contents accidentally spilled onto his young daughter, who had to be rushed to the hospital. The powder turned out not to be anthrax – and the story Minhaj told on stage turned out not to be true.In another segment, Minhaj said police once slammed him against the hood of a car in 2002 after a white man and FBI informant infiltrated his mosque.
"Every story in my style is built around a seed of truth," he told the publication. "My comedy Arnold Palmer is seventy per cent emotional truth—this happened—and then thirty per cent hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction."
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