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Hasan Minhaj Breaks Bad
In his new special, the comedian smartly drops his holier-than-thou progressive image.
In the discourse that followed, critics pointed out that the story wouldn’t have had legs if Minhaj hadn’t risen to fame by positioning himself as a morally righteous, oft-persecuted authority figure. (“Hillary Clinton wanted to be president so bad she was willing to sit in the same office …”) But in the special’s best bit, about why an increasing number of brown people and immigrants in America — a subset Minhaj calls “Beigeistan” — have begun to vote Republican, his new persona clicks into place. “I would let you body-cavity search me at every airport, spit in my mouth, and call me a terrorist.” He uses this momentum as a way to implicate his “Beigeistan” audience: “We are way more practical than we are progressive,” he observes, earning an applause break.
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