Hasan Minhaj schedules 3 Bay Area shows. Here’s how to get tickets

Comic Hasan Minhaj is returning to the Bay Space this summer time for a particular dwell taping throughout his newest stand-up tour. 

A 3-show run is scheduled for July 12-13 on the San Jose Heart for the Performing Arts as a part of Minhaj’s Off With His Head tour. The tour kicked off within the fall in Milwaukee and took over San Francisco’s Masonic for 4 sold-out reveals in February.  

Tickets can be found by way of an artist presale. Common onsale begins at 10 a.m. Friday, April 12, at hasanminhaj.com. 

Telephones and smartwatches will probably be prohibited throughout all tour stops. Attendees who carry them will probably be instructed to lock them in Yondr pouches upon arrival. Anybody seen utilizing a tool in the course of the efficiency will probably be escorted out of the venue by safety.

Minhaj, born and raised in Davis, first launched his comedy profession in San Francisco whereas learning at UC Davis within the early 2000s. He started to achieve widespread recognition for his political humor throughout his run as senior correspondent on “The Every day Present” from 2014 to 2018. He scored his personal Netflix comedy sequence “Patriot Act” in 2018, melding information reporting with witty jokes. Although the present was canceled after two years and 6 seasons, it received an Emmy and landed Minhaj on Time journal’s checklist of the 100 most influential individuals of 2019. 

Final fall, Minhaj made headlines following accusations that he fabricated the main points of non-public anecdotes in his jokes. The allegations surfaced in a New Yorker story written by Claire Malone, that seemed into the deceptive nature of the comic’s stand-up and sparked broader discourse concerning the function of fact in comedy. Minhaj later admitted he embellished a few of his tales, however emphasised they had been rooted in “emotional fact.” Following the controversy, Minhaj was reportedly eliminated because the front-runner to take over “The Every day Present” from earlier host Trevor Noah. 

Minhaj referred to the scandal throughout his San Francisco stand-up run earlier this yr, cheekily telling the viewers “don’t fact-check that joke, as a result of they got here on your boy.” 

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