Hassan Minhaj Dinner Pressure
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Sam Parr shares a story about having dinner with comedian Hassan Minhaj and feeling intimidated by his intelligence and comedic ability.
"I went out with Hassan last night for dinner. The story of this is Shaan interviewed him last year. I thought I saw him on the street and ran up and said hey, but it actually wasn't him and I looked like an idiot. I tweeted about it and he texted me - he got my number from Shaan - and we went and hung out.
This guy is a pretty big deal comedian. He is so smart, so much smarter than I am - that's what I learned. And number two, I was so intimidated to be around him because I didn't know if I could make him laugh. If I could make him laugh, I'm like... this is weird. And I really didn't, I failed, I could not make him laugh.
He showed me these books he's reading. I wanted to tweet this out but I was too embarrassed. After I hung out with him I was like, 'This guy's got me in a trance.' He could tell me about anything - he's so funny and good at storytelling. I'm so into it and I was like 'I want to figure out how to be funny.' I went on Amazon and googled 'how to be funny' or 'how to be clever.'"
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.