There’s definitely an audience (both white and brown) for Hasan Minhaj’s brand of comedy.

As a brown person though, Minhaj is all about self-pity and self-depracation just to get a laugh, which appeals to white people because they feel they can laugh along with him and not be considered racist since it’s a brown man saying shit about brown people and culture. But it paints us brown people as dim-witted tools of our parents.

He’s also blatantly all for the liberal agenda and is saying all the things he has to (support for #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter) in order to win the affection of the liberal millennial base he appeals to. He offers nothing original and is the safe bet for white and brown people to laugh at because he makes it okay to blame white people for the all the ills of the world (which white people today love to gobble up for some reason), while at the same time conveniently avoid digging deep into brown culture and really offer a nuanced analysis of what being brown really is. Peters can do that, but because he doesn’t make himself look like a bumbling idiot/victim in the process, he’s not considered PC enough.

Also, Hasan Minhaj’s show Patriot Act uses a laugh track. ‘Nuff said.