Hasan Minhaj Roasts Mehdi Hasan

@HasanMinhaj and Mehdi Hasan don’t just share a common brown name… actually, that may be all they have in common. One loves to debate, the other avoids it like the plague. One is obsessed (sorry, Mehdi) with Twitter, the other avoids it like the plague. And one knew months ago that Trump was going to win, and with record levels of Black and Brown support. What began as a friendly conversation quickly turned into a sparring session as Hasan pushed back on Mehdi’s debate tactics:

“You love to litigate,” Hasan told Mehdi. “Sometimes I want to hang out with a friend. I don’t want to hang out with a lawyer.”

They also talked about Joe Rogan and diagnosing what’s the matter with men these days, pseudo-intellectualism, Hasan’s latest Netflix special - including the perplexities and paradoxes of “Beigeistan”, and yes, the whole ‘Daily Show’ thing with Hasan and the New Yorker.

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