Hasan Minhaj Says Life Is Like Biryani (Reheat)

About this episode

Hasan Minhaj discusses how biryani serves as a metaphor for navigating life as a third-culture kid.

For comedian and former Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj, biryani is more than a delicious food. It's a guide to life: pulling out the good bits and pushing the weird stuff to the side. And when you're a third-culture kid, Hasan says, you pick and choose which parts of the two cultures to make part of your life.

People in this episode

Host: Dan Pashman

Guest: Hasan Minhaj

Topics covered

• biryani
• third-culture
• life lessons
• comedy
• cultural identity

Keywords

• biryani
• Hasan Minhaj
• comedy
• cultural identity
• life lessons

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Daily Show

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