[Music] like I don't know if this is real this is bad man hey what's going on everybody for first we Feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today I'm joined by Hassan Minaj you know him from The Daily Show and then
he's making his theatrical debut with homecoming King this fall Hassan welcome to the show thanks for having me man how are you with hot food as an Indian I'm pretty good do you feel pressure like the pressure of your people like on your and you really need to come correct like when I watch it I'm a fan of the show
I'm a fan of everybody you interview but also like the Indian In Me Is like like like Sriracha like really like oh tapao like really like when I saw kala drop out after three I was like come on oh yeah that's a story unto itself are you ready to get it started yeah yeah let's get into
[Music] it all right so Sriracha is no big deal the these are layup lines you know what I mean right-handed layups let's do a leftand layup all right so you and I have both worked with DJ khed as you just said he you did the sneaker closet parody on uh Comedy Central I basically
parody what you guys essentially did exactly it was awesome and you dove into khaled's World matter of fact congratulations you didn't play yourself thank you but it was funny because khed has kind of almost become A-list at this point but back when he was with us he wasn't quite at that like Len degenerous
level no no no I saw him and I was like this is a Malcolm Gladwell Tipping Point situation right he has gotten his 10,000 hours of clth talk in and it's about to like really blow up in a major way and then you know what too it's been funny to see his Evolution as a celebrity he's
on Ellen De generous and they're like who are they and when he was on my show I asked him that question six months before anybody asked him that question I asked him that he's like they are the [ __ ] the [ __ ] boys that's one of the best that's one of the best sound bites ever I mean it's just know better word
for hater mad people bums losers garbage like a piece of [ __ ] how did he greet you when you got to his place what's up man this is going to be the biggest interview of your whole career and dare I say it's up there it might have been it might it might be khed prime minister Justin Trudeau yep
Barack Obama and you met in that order it's like an Air Jordan 3 right some Man classic classic you're wearing those right now right now man come on man come on now shout out to shout outs to vicom these correspondence dinner events always seem like the definition of a tough crowd because you
have these kogy reporters you have these robotic politicians you have people that are trying to awkwardly laugh at brown people jokes and it's always weird and uncomfortable right right what's crazy is is that event the Congressional correspondence dinner was 3 days after Orlando so what was happening in the
Zeitgeist was like gun control terrorism all of this stuff was in the Zeitgeist and specifically in regards to Congress there was like massive Congressional inaction it's interesting that you say this because when you watch your speech and about the 18-minute mark you can see
that it's all jokes up until the 18-minute mark and then you can see that clearly philosophically you made a decision to go from Comedy to something with more weight and wondered why I'm the only one of out of all my like I consider like comedians like we're like this tribe at the whole tribe that got
this chance to say it to their face one shot mom spaghetti Eight Mile like say it right and I would be remiss if I didn't take that shot ultimately what I wanted to let them know was like Hey look we turn to you guys you guys are like you guys are thought leaders you guys are leaders in society we don't pay
you to write tweets and send us your hashtag and thoughts and prayers we pay you guys and turn to you guys and vote for you guys to pass legislation so do that this looks a lot redder than the other ones but it's not that tough of sauce plus you did come in here talking
a big game and S I was talking a lot of [ __ ] you were you met Michael Jordan what was that like because everybody has Michael Jordan horror stories and they're my favorite genre of story I love them I can't get enough of them I met Michael Jordan but I didn't meet him I tried to meet
him and then I got body slammed by his bodyguard that's what seems to happen I didn't fully understand context there's this brown kid running from across the casino floor yelling Michael happy birthday but I was just coming in for a high five and then this dude just straight up dded me boom into
the floor in Vegas casino and like literally like time and stopped like everybody was just like the whole placement yeah the whole placement side like old Filipino ladies stopped playing blackjacket and were like whoa the dude from hen Kumar got body slammed this is getting hot it's getting
hot we're only at number three Hanan this is a problem let me ask you a question sure you think Donald Trump will destroy the world if given the nuclear codes so here's my thing with Donald Trump right I used to be a Celebrity Apprentice fan like I watch Donald Trump all the time I
was like a Donald Trump fan because I thought he was this sort of interesting pop culture figure he was so entertaining on that show because this is a show about him but he only appears for the first 3 minutes and he like sets up the thing and then his [ __ ] kids kind of carry it through and then he
meets him at the Finish Line at the boardroom so I always thought it was interesting that this guy who has his own show has even outsourced his own hosting duties it seems like kind of what's going on with his presidential run where it's like say what you will about Donald
Trump but he clearly just doesn't want the job like even if you're voting for him even if you're a fan of him like he's clearly telling everybody that he doesn't want the job doubling and tripling down on all these Niche things but it's just like Celebrity Apprentice he didn't even want that job he just
wanted the vanity project so I have this Theory what if we were all to just tell him Donald you're president yeah like he's not actually president but we do a Truman Show thing where we sort of all act like we're a part of this play this is to save civilization that we all act
so when we see him we're like Mr President he's like oh yeah I'm president but he's not actually President we build him a fake White House like he thinks that this whole thing is real I think he would even like that just keep it secret be like yeah where do I sign yeah dude where's Joe lauma I I need me
and Joe Luna to stand next to each other cuz I'm Joe lauma in Brown face and he's me and white face like we're just in VAR there's various shades of melanin between me and Joe lauma people on Twitter are like yo are you Joe lauma and I'm like hey man I could try me in honestly some of that zombie
apocalypse Chic and I am Joe lauma from the outside looking in going to these political conventions always seems like such a circus it always seems so crazy but I did like the story that you did for the Daily Show because it outlines an interesting point sometimes at the RNC you get face to face with people who
you think you'll have nothing in common with and then you start to have these conversations and you realize that hey maybe we're not as far apart as it looks on the news or maybe we're not as far apart as it would seem once we actually start talking talking did you have that
experience people came out with the hats and the cap capes and like the all lives matter signs and it was terrifying right to see like 15,000 people screaming yes lock her up all that stuff looks crazy it looked crazy we approached some of them that literally were like all lives
matter and then we presented the platforms for black lives matter police accountability body cameras all that stuff probably just not like cool sounds reasonable to me yeah they like OH police officers from those respective communities should watch over those communities and yeah sure like they said
yes to all of the policy platforms it's like oh you didn't like the shoe box that it came in like that the I think it's the marketing and advertising for these campaigns and for these people people just fall for those things and then go against their self-interest all the time I guess yeah it's [ __ ]
[Music] crazy so it's kind of tasty but it has a k all these sauces are great but you my mom my mom and dad would love us for this next part some people might call it a crutch on hot ones maybe we're being lazy maybe we're phoning it in but it always is a great segment we just
pull some pictures from your Instagram some oldies but goodies and we just need more context and it's starting to hit Hanan laptop please give me a second see here's the thing it's like these some of these come in with like this left hook uh-huh you don't see it coming and that's one of them here's how I know
that I think you're part of the Illuminati you you just you just had milk have you not had I could have I could have P compare my milk to his milk it's just doing the show weekly I'm not I'm no superhero what's your reg like during the week I mean don't tell me you're eating this every day me yeah every week
oh you got to the NBA Final close to Steph Curry and that's one hell of an Instagram picture man this was a crazy situation I don't think I'll ever get this to ever happen again in my life what happened game seven Courtside unbelievable how unbelievable a buddy of mine knows Dan Gilbert and he's like do
you want to be my guest I was like yeah I'll be your guest sign me up Beauty and the Beast I will be your guest went Courtside it was nuts and like I'm a like I'm a true like Hoops fan so to go there I saw the block I saw the LeBron Block baseline I saw Luke Walton's
parents literally like just their hearts just crumble I saw it in real time that was that was LeBron's Muhammad Ali's Rumble in the Jungle yeah that's exactly what it is I'm going to go into the belly of the Beast just pounded rope a do at the end I'm the greatest like and
we're all like yeah you you pretty much are one more was this a weird time cuz it was like in like the 2014 era oh man and you were like you had this Cosby interview like right before that whole Avalanche began if you think back on this time what do you think about was it trippy for you was it had been so weird
it's so crazy because in the documentary standup Planet which is which has now been like removed they don't air it anymore because of that in the documentary he was like you know what's you know what's most important about stand-up comedy stand-up comedy is about likeability and I don't like you and
that is the best compliment to get from a serial rapist hey man you kind of you bother me a little bit that's the best thing that could have ever happened that day I was like I should quit comedy but now it's amazing how life works you know what I mean I'm like it all made sense
sure you're an interesting guy in that you know you do the political correspondence stuff you do sketch comedy stuff you have onean show stuff so I imagine that there are a lot of people that you've had in your life who maybe you've considered mentors who probably all have a different opinion
about who you should be and what kind of performer you should be best advice I ever received was probably from John Stewart and uh John was like move towards your discomfort which is maybe a metaphor as to why I'm here no know but I really could agree with that as a in terms of matter like if there's something that's
making you uncomfortable explore that like dig into that now I'm getting like the starting to bird in other places like my lips are burning my gums are burning that's not right no mistake I made sometimes is like with they need food sometimes you eat with your hands then you'll rub your
eyes don't play yourself like [Music] that pour a little bit of yours into mine please go ahead thank you what do you remember about Mike Tyson's standup when you shared the bill with him was he making people laugh was he funny on stage dude it was tragic nor they say comedy and tragedy are the
two sides of the same coin was really tragic cuz he was saying things that wasn't making anybody laugh I'm not getting emotional cuz the Mike Tyson stuff it's the wing it's the wing you got it you got it this is ridiculous this is so you know when Donald Trump was like I
want to bring back worse than waterboarding this is what he was talking about come on our show yeah he'll be like we should bring this to getma here we go push and belief he was like do you know what it's like to need money and have to perform at people's birthday parties cuz you have to pay
rent I was like man that is that's like that's awful he's like like I'll be at I'll be at kids' birthday parties like these 16-year-old white kids and they and they'll be be like can I take a picture with you and he's like I want to knock them out but I can't and it's so humiliating for me as
a man so that was his material at the that was his material and I was like at the Laugh Factory he's at the Laugh Factory at the [ __ ] Chuckle Hut and he's just like isn't that crazy and people are just sitting there in silence and I'm like this is a true Greek [Music] tragedy I'm like thinking about my
mother like I'm trying to like think positive thoughts you know your mom would be proud that you made it this far not everyone does including DJ K he doesn't know what this world is like we're up in the clouds Mad Dog 357 used to be our hottest sauce now it's our second hottest sauce
Assan you're holding up can you make it through you are I'm starting to get like this leg I kind of want to like like I want to like play pickup or something I want to hit the stage I want to drop like 10 minutes cuz like I'm feeling hyped that's the thing about hot sauce you know that they say that you
end up kind of getting sort of a psychedelic high off of it so I think you're really feeling that yeah like I popped a mly I'm sweating yeah all right [Music] so one of your early jobs was was with this Tech startup ning right and I'm not sure a lot of people know this but it's
the sort of blogging platform oh my God and 50 Cent was one of the firsters this is 50.com sh out did he ever stop by the office or what do you remember he never did but I used to have to work really late at night I'm just talking loud that way I don't to like think about like sweating or like think about eating I
has to I used to have to work really late at night and I had this sort of like esoteric like life not esoteric like just like come to Jesus realization moment where I was like in a green room at a comedy club doing a set before I was about to go on stage and I had my
computer in my laptop in the green room and I'm like this has got to stop I'm an Indian guy doing tech support right now this is wrong I do my set I still have to work it's late at night and um I was basically doing like support on like something that was happening wrong with like his Network
and I accidentally shut the network off like I shut down this is 50 I shut down this is 50 dude and like at like 3:00 in the morning like I fall asleep I get a call from like my manager being like what's going on and a bunch of people were like yo do not fess up to this like don't take the
don't take the Fall For This they they won't know that you shut it down I fessed up to the deed you made an enemy out of 50 Cent 50 Cent made an enemy out of you dude I pulled uh the night of like nir I took the deal I said I did the crime and I shouldn't have dude I'm having an out of- Body
Experience right now that's what we love like I don't know if this is real this is bad [Music] man so you ready to do the last one and you're a fan so you know what's up it's Blair's Mega Death sauce with liquid rage I like to put a dab on it you don't have to if you don't want to but you
have come this far son you have come this far it's up to you don't have to you don't have to if you don't want to is this just compare this to what we had so far well this by the numbers is the worst one but and this might make you feel a little bit better maybe a little bit worse I think that this is the
hardest sauce to endure I think that this one is the one that punches you in the face the hardest this one by the Numbers the hottest but if you can handle this you can handle this that's what I think all right please tell me this is all for something like are we doing this for charity is there some greater medum no
this is all for nothing this is I think just to satisfy some sort of Creative Vision dab dab dab dab dab dab dab so through doing this show I know how picky fans can be if there's even the perception that we've changed something about this show fans go nuts I imagine that the daily
show was like that on steroids when the torch got passed from John to Trevor what's been the biggest challenge from the inside do you ever feel the pressure of having to be twice as good as you were for people to think that you're performing at the same level you know what it is man tell
me really what we do on the show it's like political chopped we take the ingredients of what we're given that day we got to make sand castle out of it mhm and that's all we're trying to do respect the process Kobe Bryant Muse we're just picking up marbles every day with our toes building
a sand castle it's like fine get a little bit of Carly fiorina we got some Trump Mega vetting that we're doing on the show today we build a sand castle the water washes it away we do it again we do that like 200 plus times a year that's what we're supposed to do thean you made it
through all the way through cleared it I honestly don't know what I'm even saying are you proud of yourself like you could ask me my social security number on camera what your I'll probably give it to you 54 I'm not going to give it to you all right man the floor is yours 30 seconds this camera that camera
you like to work this camera sometimes I've noticed pick them anyone that you want let the world know what you have going on in your life right now I'm on my wood man show it's called homecoming King we're going to 30 plus cities around the country we talk about my life we talk about
first generation Brown experience and what new Brown America means to me it's a great show it's like a brown John Hughes movie we talk about love racism forgiveness 70 minutes beautiful theater visuals go to homecoming King show.com to get your tickets check us out in a city near you dude pray for me [Music]