On Monday’s (September 18th) episode of The View, Whoopi Goldberg commented on the controversy surrounding Homecoming King star Hasan Minhaj after he revealed that his stand-up comedy is embellished.
“That’s what we do” as comedians, Goldberg said. “That’s what we do, we tell stories and we embellish them.”
She added, “If you’re going to hold a comic to the point where you’re going to check up on stories, you have to understand, a lot of it is not the exact thing that happened because why would we tell exactly what happened? It’s not that interesting. There’s information that we will give you as comics that will have grains of truth, but don’t take it to the bank. That’s our job, a seed of truth: sometimes truth and sometimes total B.S.”