Comedian Hasan Minhaj to visit campus

Comedian, actor and writer Hasan Minhaj will speak at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 8, in the Popp Martin Student Union, Room 340. He will give his humorous observations of political and current events.

Minhaj is a senior correspondent on the Emmy and Peabody award-winning program “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” on Comedy Central. As the host of the White House Correspondent’s Dinner this year, Minhaj described the comedy routine was “an immigrant’s love letter to America.”

“Homecoming King,” Minhaj’s critically acclaimed one-man show, now a Netflix comedy special, returned to off-Broadway after a sold-out run in 2015. The show is an autobiographical depiction of Minhaj’s experience as a Muslim, Indian-American son of immigrants and his attempt in taking a white girl named Bethany Reed to his senior prom.

As a featured storyteller for “The Moth,” Minhaj has garnered acclaim in film, web and television. He hosted the documentary special “Stand Up Planet” produced by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The film illustrated how life is for many people in some of the harshest places on Earth.

His viral web series “The Truth with Hasan Minhaj” has been featured in countless publications including the Huffington Post, Gawker and the New York Times. He has appeared on a variety of TV programs, such as “Arrested Development” on Netflix and HBO’s “Getting On.”

Minhaj’s free, public appearance is sponsored by the Center for Leadership Development’s Forty-Niner Speaker Series.