.hasanminhaj brought some levity to the situation when he testified before Congress, though the student loan crisis is no laughing matter
Hasan Minhaj contains multitudes. In the same breath, he can make a joke about cake shows on Netflix, he can also berate Congress for their relative inaction on solving the student loan debt crisis that has left 44.7 million Americans saddled with a collective $1.56 trillion in debt,“This issue is sidelining millions of Americans.
“Now granted, our audience is mainly unemployed poli-sci majors, but that's still a lot of money,” Minhaj joked. There was not a lot of laughter by the committee.He went on to prove the point that college has objectively just gotten more expensive by telling each of the legislators on the committee how much they paid for college when they attended and how much that would have cost today.
“We’ve put up a paywall to the middle class,” the comedian said before saying that American's shouldn’t have to have a Netflix-style paywall for their lives. “That’s why we put our entire show for free on YouTube. It's also because you can’t find anything on Netflix. It's like the lost and found bin of entertainment,” he added. Again, not much laughter. It seemed no one in the room really knew what to do with any of his jokes, which is their loss and not his.
Minhaj’s testimony wasn’t the only interesting thing to happen at the hearing, which was meant to discuss the
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