Hasan Minhaj talks to THR about his new Netflix comedy stand-up special, 'The King’s Jester'
co-creator Prashanth Venkataramanujam on the hourlong special.began as what Minhaj describes as “comedy vomit,” coming to life through small pop-up shows that allowed him to workshop topics like his fertility struggles and a lawsuit levied against him by a hedge-fund manager parent at his daughter’s school who didn’t like being the butt of‘s jokes. The result is a 65-minute reintroduction to Minhaj, and what he values most at this stage in his life.
I sent the show to a few people whose approval I really wanted, [including] Sam Spratt, who was the artistic designer of [Minhaj’s 2017 special]. He told me that he wished I had gone deeper in exploring the idea that fame itself is the avatar of sin. He said, “Perhaps the way you needle dictators like Crown Prince MBS or Rodrigo Duterte, is because you have more in common with them than not.
In its purest form, what I love most about art is its ability to take human stories from the margins to the mainstream. I tell a story in the special about the FBI surveilling Muslim communities in the aftermath of the Patriot Act, getting kids to give false confessions to implicate themselves in terror cases. And I can’t help but think about the work that Sarah Koenig and Rabia Chaudry did to raise awareness about Adnan Syed.
In workshopping the special on tour, did any reactions to jokes surprise you — or ultimately change the material?
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