Hasan Minhaj is talking out about The Daily Show.

The 39-year-old star opened up in a canopy story with Esquire.

During the interview, he recalled the scandal that value him a internet hosting gig on the Comedy Central sequence.

“We were in talks, and I had the gig, and we were pretty much good to go,” he mentioned.

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After The New Yorker revealed a profile of Hasan and fact-checked a few of his jokes, it was revealed he embellished a number of tales for his stand-up acts.

As a end result, The Daily Show internet hosting gig “went away. That’s part of showbiz.”

“I remember Jon [Stewart] called, and he said, ‘Why the f-ck are they doing this? And who does this benefit?’” he mentioned.

“It was painful, there’s no doubt about it. It was the first time I saw the speed and velocity of the internet, how quickly a story can take off. That part of it was very new to me and disorienting.”

“The most painful thing is my wife and my parents,” he added. “To see them hurt, to see them engage with ‘So I’m reading on the internet…’—that is so painful. I’m the eldest. I feel really, really sad that I let my parents down…I’m very lucky that they got to see many beautiful highs of my career. Watching them experience a painful moment, an embarrassing moment in your career, I wish I didn’t put them through that. That’s the tough part.”

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