Hasan Minhaj

when you're, when you're in second or third grade, when you're doing the book report.

So I'm doing a book report.

Yeah.

I did have the wristbands and I would, yeah, I would beg mom like every year.

Did you play in high school?

I played in high school.

I played freshman in JV.

I didn't make varsity.

No, but everything... What's really cool about it is comedians tend to be very heady people.

But if you... There's something really beautiful in having a sport or an activity that articulates what you do in real life.

So...

you can get in your head about a lot of stuff.

That's the difficulty of modernity and the difficulty of adulthood I found.

You can spend all this time worrying, not worrying.

But what's really great, I found with basketball is, and then later in comedy, you learn a lot about yourself.

So you learn about

tall you are, how strong you are, how to position yourself in relation to someone else.

I sized you up as soon as you walked in.

I was like, okay, he's much taller than me.

I could probably get underneath there.