Hasan Minhaj Uses Timothée Chalamet's Name at Starbucks
I'm a huge fan.
Thank you.
I'm a huge fan of you.
Thank you.
And it's Hasan Minhaj.
No.
Yes.
No.
Really?
Well, my name is Hasan Minhaj.
Oh.
I want to do this.
I actually want to do this on national television.
Good, please, because everyone that says your name
says Hasan Minhaj.
Yeah, but the real way you pronounce it,
and this is a big deal because my parents are here,
it's Hasan Minhaj.
And people always mispronounce it.
They're always like, Hasseen Minaja, Hussein.
I'm so sorry, I can't pronounce it.
Meet my son, Higsby Withherthrottle III.
And I'm like-- how do you not pronounce-- try it.
All right, Hassin Menish.
No, that's not--
No, no.
I-- look, I appreciate people trying.
I was actually, I was doing CNN, which is like--
it's an international drama show where
nine people yell at each other.
And the host brought me out.
And he was like he was trying really hard,
he was like breathing heavily.
And he was just like, give it up for Hossin Meanhaj.
It was like he was casting a spell on me.
And I'm just like, you don't have to.
Say it again, so that people hear it again.
Hasan Minhaj.
Hasan Minhaj.
Yes, that's it.
Hasan.
Yes.
Hasan.
Look, when I first kind of, you know,
started doing comedy, people, like, you
should change your name.
And I'm like, I'm not going to change my name.
If you can pronounce Ansel Elgort,
you can pronounce Hasan Minhaj.
There's an actor just named Ansel Elgort
and we all just walk around pronouncing it, completely
normally.
Yeah, well, DeGeneres was hard for people to get for a while.
What did they do?
DeGeneres or Degenerate or like, you
know, lots and-- lots of other things.
And you stayed strong.
Yeah, and now it's DeGeneres.
Yeah.
But Hasan Minhaj.
Yeah.
Minhaj.
Minhaj.
So the emphasis is on the H.
Yes.
And what do they do at Starbucks?
What do they--
At Starbucks, I just go by Timothée Chalamet.
That's good.
I just keep it simple.
Yeah, and they usually do it right.
With like, they're like Timothée with two Es?
And I'm like, yeah, that's me.
Oh wow.
Wow, girls must freak out when they see you.
Yeah.
They're kind of disappointed.
So you say your parents are in the audience.
Yeah.
Mom and Dad are right there.
Hi Mom and dad.
That's Najme and Seema.
Hi, Najme and Seema!
And they're huge fans of the show, Ellen.
Oh, thank you.
My mom actually wants me to change the format of my show
so it's more like Ellen.
I see.
No, I have my show.
He can have his show.
His show is very different than mine.
And it's good.
And that's what I like about it.
It's a whole different format.
There's a lot more screens and it's less happy, But--
No.
I mean we cover really heavy things.
You do.
Yeah.
It's really smart.
You have to be super smart to understand and follow along.
But wait, before we get to that.
So when did you start in stand-up
and how supportive were they?
Well, I would actually--
Mom, you know this, I would-- we had our little secret.
I was in college.
And I would say, hey, I'm going to the library.
And then I would take the Camry, and my mom would tell Dad, hey,
he's going to the library.
And so we live in Davis.
And I would drive to the San Francisco Punch Line,
so it was about an hour.
Yeah.
And one of these nights when I was going to the library,
I ended up crashing the car in Vallejo, which is on the way.
And I had to call home.
And Mom, remember you passed the phone to Dad.
And you're like, I can't--
I can't cover for you anymore.
And so I had my dad come to Vallejo.
And it was raining and it was super dramatic.
And he was like, this is really far for the library, huh, son?
And I just had this moment where I was like, Dad,
I'm a stand-up comedian.
And he was like, why couldn't you
be smoking weed like everyone else in college.
And that's when I found out that Najme Minhaj was 420-friendly.
So that's cool
Uh-huh, but they must-- do they go see you a lot?
Did they support you when you started out?
No, they didn't.
Remember, I was going to the library.
I know!
Yeah.
But now they do.
Now they're cool.
As long as I'm doing Ellen, Mom was like, I can call in sick.
Yeah.
All right, so now you're doing this show, which I loved
your stand-up special too.
I thought that that was brilliant.
Thank you.
So tell everybody what the show is.
Because it's political and funny and a great take on everything.
Yeah, we'll do like, we'll do sort
of one big comedic investigative report on say, global warming,
or you know, student loan debt.
Just real fun, interesting, stuff
that people want to watch.
All right.
But coming from you, which makes it really easier to digest.
Yeah.
It's still great, but funny, too.
Yeah, but I think people would rather
watch like a three-year-old come out
and try French fries for the first time.
Well.
Look the way you guys responded to the French fry thing,
we need more of that on the show.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I say all the time we're working too hard.
We have to have a kid with a French fry.
That's all you really need.
Yeah.
It's called Patriot Act, it's currently streaming on Netflix.
We'll be right back.
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