Hasan Minhaj

So I was like, what are you watching?

And Chris Rock was in this like, oh my God, it's one of my favorite specials ever.

But he's in this maroon suit and he's performing at Dar Constitution Hall.

And he's being so irreverent.

And that, the way he's talking about politics and society and culture and race.

He's being so honest.

And he's stalking on the stage.

And people are like applauding him.

And so the way I saw it is like as a freshman in college, I had a job at Office Max.

I was selling printers at Office Max and then I'm going to college and obviously high school.

everybody's telling me from the moment I was in kindergarten, be obedient, like color in between the lines.

And I got to see someone basically be irreverent and disobedient.

That's really what comedy is.

It is a release on the pressure valve.

And he's being rewarded for it.

He gets to say whatever he wants to say.

He gets to behave the way he wants to behave.

He gets to say the way we all kind of feel.

And just the theater looked so big.

And I was like, I want to do that.