Hasan Minhaj
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You might have someone literally clowning on stage.
Someone doing like a super blue, Ali Wong would do this really blue material.
Then W. Kamau Bell would come on and do this very like political material.
Then I would come on and do this like I live at home material.
And then people were just doing their laundry.
They're folding laundry.
But what it… You learn how to…
get an audience's attention, keep their attention, but you also learn this whole thing is made up.
This whole thing, it's not even a real thing.
Yeah.
We essentially perform in basements, bars, or laundromats.
We create a show out of nothing.
And then we go away.
We're these traveling kind of entertainment vagabonds, essentially.
And it really did prepare me then for what showbiz is and was.
You know, all these things that you're auditioning for are, you know,
what is the Tonight Show?
These things are like these sandcastles, but then they go away.
Yeah.
I agree with you.