Hasan Minhaj Reveals All of His Comedy Secrets

Money will not solve all your problems, but money can take care certain problems. So, if there's ten problems, four of them—say, childcare, my daughter's braces, being able to Uber back and forth to the airport—I can take those problems off the table. It will not solve my marriage. It will not make me a loving father or an attentive father. Those are problems I have to solve. It won't make me in shape. It won't help my mind. But at least taking those pain points off the table means a lot to me.

If you want to have a certain thing, carry yourself like the guy who has that thing.

So much of performance and to be great at it... The performers, they're not in their head; they're in their body ... When you watch Steph Curry play, when I watch Devin Booker play, these guys are so in their body. Luka [Doncic] is the best at this. He's in his body. He's in flow.

Good friends consume together; great friends create together.

The pseudonymous digital world has commodified cowardice in such a way that the real world and the game checks you.

Show business, specifically, is extremely predatory, and it's built on this idea that we provide the labor. And they're kind of banking on you being desperate, dumb, and not owning your IP and content creation.

I want to be able to have as much fun whether I'm in a mansion having a feast with celebrities as if I'm stuck in an elevator by myself.

One of the things that I definitely feel is, like, when I put together a show on tour... I want to give you a show ... For me, putting together, mixing stand-up comedy, storytelling and theater—that, to me, was my elixir.

Every artist, and I think every human being, whether it's intimate relationships, personal relationships, collaborating and business, family dynamics, and hopefully your career—everybody wants to feel seen.