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It’s OK to Lie in Comedy—But Not Like Hasan Minhaj Did

Por: The Daily Beast Entertainment September 23, 2023

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Comedian opens her new HBO stand-up special, Salute Me Or Shoot Me, by admitting not only that she’s wearing Spanx, but because she doesn’t know how to pee in them, she’s standing before the audience now with a wet ass. Whether any of that is true or not is irrelevant, because she literally has made herself the butt of the joke., on the other hand, and debated this past week not because he acknowledged in a profile that he had lied in his... + full article



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