Comedian Hasan Minhaj has gone viral for all the right reasons thanks to a resurfaced interview on the subject of white male hotness.
Back in December of last year, Vanity Fair filmed Minhaj undertaking a lie detector test (just casually).
During the test, Minhaj was asked to rate the looks of actor Dax Shepard, who had previously labelled Minhaj a “nine out of ten.”
When Minhaj was called harsh for responding that Shepard was a “6.57”, he had just the perfect comeback in mind.
“Dax is part of a thing where, in show business, there’s this whole movement of approachable white dudes whereas with, like, men of colour, it’s like Idris Elba, Henry Golding, Zayn Malik, or you work in IT… there’s no middle,” he said.
“You know how there’s a whole class of white dudes, just like schlubby dudes who went to high school with me, but now made it in show biz? There no like that [for people of colour]. You gotta have, like, the V-taper in your abs if you’re gonna be Asian,” he said.
As if that wasn’t thought-provoking enough, Minhaj continued on to say that men of colour are expected to be as “ripped” as Hawaii Five-0 actor Daniel Dae Kim, and “can’t ever have bread or cereal.”
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The lie detector test concluded when Minhaj was asked whether he thought he was better looking than Shepard, and his reply was suitably searing.
“Yes, but I will not get the same opportunities that Dax does,” he said and wow, talk about mic drop.
As much as Minhaj’s comments about representation and double standards still ring true almost a year later, it seems he has changed his tune on one factor.
Off the back of the video going viral on Twitter, Minhaj retweeted the clip with the caption, “guys, I spoke too soon. I just Googled “Dax Shepard shirtless” — my bad @daxshepard.”
Check out Hasan Minhaj in his viral Vanity Fair video:
