Hasan Minhaj Measures Success on Late Night Sets and Being a Cast Member on SNL

Name: Hasan Minhaj Measures Success on Late Night Sets and Being a Cast Member on SNL
Uploaded: 2022-09-27T19:30:01+00:00
Duration: 22 s
Channel: Sam Parr
Description: In this interview excerpt, Hasan Minhaj reflects on the benchmarks he pursued early in his comedy career, emphasizing legacy media milestones such as…

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In this interview excerpt, Hasan Minhaj reflects on the benchmarks he pursued early in his comedy career, emphasizing legacy media milestones such as landing a set on a late‑night show like Conan, becoming a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and securing roles in movies, sitcoms, or TV shows. He contrasts those external metrics with the personal sense of achievement he felt after joining The Daily Show and experiencing a "selling out" moment, describing it as a check‑mark that signaled he had finally turned the corner in his career.

What was your metric instead of subscribers and like views when you were younger? When I was coming up, it was probably, can you do a set on late night? Can you do like a Conan set? I'll be a cast member of SNL. Like those were the metrics, those like legacy media comedy institutions. I'll be in a movie. I want to be in a sitcom. I want to be in a TV show. And what'd it feel like when you started actually The Daily Show and then selling out? Yeah, that felt like check mark. Like, wow, you've turned the corner.