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1. Early Life
2. Comedy Career
3. The Daily Show and Other Projects
4. Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
5. Personal Life

Early Life

Hasan Minhaj was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India to Muslim parents. His mother, Najme Minhaj, returned to India after his birth, leaving Hassan in California with his father, a research organic chemist. Eight years later, Najme returned after completing her medical studies in India. She did not join the family in the U.S. until three years later, in , when she gave birth to a daughter. Hasan attended Davis Senior High School, graduating in He then moved on to the University of California, Davis, earning a Bachelor of Arts in political science in

Comedy Career

Minhaj's interest in comedy was sparked while in college after attending his first stand-up special, Chris Rock's Never Scared. He began driving to San Francisco to perform stand-up and, in , won the Wild radio station's contest Best Comic Standing, which led to him opening for acts such as Katt Williams, Pablo Francisco, and Gabriel Iglesias. He also worked part-time for the website Ning, an experience that he would later incorporate into his comedy routines. Minhaj cites Kevin Shea, W. Kamau Bell, and Orjio Barker as his comedy influences.

In , Minhaj relocated to Los Angeles to participate in NBC's Stand-up for Diversity, where he became a finalist. He had a recurring role in the television sitcom State of Georgia in and appeared in various roles on MTV's hidden camera show Disaster Date. In , Minhaj made guest appearances in the television series Arrested Development and Getting On. He hosted Stand Up Planet in and the web series The Truth with Hasan Minhaj in That same year, he voiced Rabbi Ray Rana in the video game Far Cry 4.

The Daily Show and Other Projects

On November 19, , Minhaj joined The Daily Show, becoming the final correspondent hired under then-host Jon Stewart. Minhaj's audition centered around a debate between Ben Affleck and Bill Maher about Islam that had occurred on Maher's show the previous night. On June 18, , Minhaj served as a featured speaker at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. His performance was notable for its condemnation of the inaction of the United States Congress to pass gun control legislation.

In October , Minhaj's off-Broadway show Homecoming King debuted, centered on the immigrant experience in the United States, illustrated through stories from Minhaj's life as a second-generation Indian-American Muslim. He later turned this show into his first stand-up special, Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King, which was filmed at the Mondavi Center at Minhaj's alma mater, the University of California, Davis, in January The special premiered on Netflix on May 23, , and won a Peabody Award.

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj

In March , Netflix announced that Minhaj would host his own weekly show on the platform. Premiering on October 28, , the new show was titled Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. The initial episode order was for 32 episodes. Patriot Act examines the contemporary cultural, political, and economic landscape. In April , Minhaj was named one of Time's most influential people in the world and won his second Peabody Award for Patriot Act. A few months after an episode of the show featured a segment on the student loan crisis, he was called to testify about it before the United States Congress. In August , Minhaj announced the end of the show after 40 episodes.

Personal Life

In January , Minhaj married Beena Patel, whom he met in college. Patel earned a Doctor of Public Health degree in and has since worked with homeless patients and as a management consultant for the non-profit health insurance company MedAmerica. Also a second-generation Indian-American, Patel is of Gujarati Hindu descent, while Minhaj is Muslim. Before the pandemic, they lived in New York City, but have since relocated to Greenwich, Connecticut. They have two children: a daughter (born ) and a son (born ).

In addition to English, Minhaj is fluent in his native languages of Hindi and Urdu. Minhaj was not aware that he had a sister until he was eight years old, when his mother and sister returned from India permanently. Ayesha Minhaj works as an attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area.