After Losing Out On ‘The Daily Show’, Hasan Minhaj Launches His Own Online Political Talk Show
deadline.comAfter missing out on the chance to be the new host of The Daily Show, Hasan Minhaj is launching his own online talk show. The comedian has launched Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know and kicked off the series with an interview with Senator Elizabeth Warren.
The series doesn’t look too dissimilar from Minhaj’s Netflix show Patriot Act and he created it with Prashanth Venkataramanujam, showrunner of that series, who now serves as Chief Content Officer for Minhaj’s production company 186K Films.
Scott Vrooman, who was a writer on Patriot Act and Getting Warmer With Kal Penn, serves as showrunner of the series. The first episode concentrates on a familiar topic: The age of the President.
Minhaj will be filming and releasing a number of these shows in the run up to the election. “With the 2024 election just months away, the Dems are in big trouble and it’s prompted some tough questions from voters like ‘How old is too old to be President?’, ‘How dumb is too dumb to be a democracy?’ and ‘How the fuck are members of Congress still allowed to trade stock?’,” asks Minhaj in the opening of the show.
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