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Hasan Minhaj, Homecoming King

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The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj uses his Netflix stand-up special, Homecoming King, to weave an intricate and hilarious account of his life as a son of Indian-American immigrants. The special was adapted from Minhaj’s 2015 Off Broadway play of the same name, and its narrative style is more akin to an episode of “The Moth” podcast than to a typical stand-up show. But what really makes this special stand out is how Minhaj manages to be bluntly honest about the difficulties of being brown in America without ranting about Muslim bans, Trump’s presidency, and other obvious issues that have been touched on before.