South Africa: Stand Up Planet Wants to Change the World -- One Joke at a Time

14 May 2014
Stand Up Planet (Johannesburg)
press release

Hasan Minhaj wants everyone to see the documentary, Stand Up Planet, which features an in-depth look at comics in South Africa and India, but his reasons for wanting the public to see it have nothing to do with his own comedic endeavors (but you may recognize him from Arrested Development, as the host of MTV's Failosophy, and his viral web series The Truth with Hasan Minhaj).

"I am proud, and very lucky, to be part of this," he said. "It's not about me or Bill Cosby [an advisor to the project]. It's about the culture of comedy as a whole and global comedy needs to add pages to this book."

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