Hasan Minhaj
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Podcast Appearances
And so these things that you could see as limitations might be the biggest breakthrough that you have.
So it showed me in the work that I do now and the specials that I put out, oh, this chapter is worth adding to the canon that is American stand-up comedy or this film that you're working on is worth adding to.
So I'm working on this film right now with Netflix about the competitive world of collegiate Bollywood dance, which is like a big, it's like a very competitive thing at colleges.
Collegiate?
Collegiate Bollywood dance.
It's very serious, Craig.
I didn't know there was such a thing.
It's a real thing.
It's the biggest one we've ever heard of, Greg.
People are very passionate about it.
So there's these kids that are like pre-pharmacy majors, but they're like dancing at night.
And the vibes and the love and the intensity is real.
Yeah.
But
I was shocked that this thing that I participated in in college was never added to the canon of American musicals.
So when you think of the great American musicals, Chicago and La La Land, I mean, there's a singing in the rain.
There's a long history.
But our culture has this...
deep history with magical realism and song and dance.
And there's generations of kids that have basically grown up dancing.