Bill Maher likens Hasan Minhaj to Jussie Smollett for making up stories for his stand-up routines and passing them off as his ’emotional truth’

Bill Maher ended his Friday night show ripping comedian Hasan Minhaj for admitting to telling fabricated stories that Minhaj called “emotional truths.”

“Hasan Minhaj, the comedian who answers the question, ‘What if Jussie Smollett stood up?'” the ‘Real Time’ host said.

“This dangerous idea that has taken hold in America that something is true simply because you want to believe it is true has to go. When the right does this, we call it conspiracy theories, and rightly so. When the left does this, we call it “emotional truth”.

In a recent New Yorker interview, Minhaj admitted to making up stories of racial discrimination.

The former Daily Show correspondent said: ‘Every story in my style is built around a seed of truth. My comedy Arnold Palmer is 70 percent emotional truth and then 30 percent hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction.’

During Friday’s ‘Real Time’ show, Maher said: “Hasan Minhaj, the comedian who answers the question, ‘What if Jussie Smollett stood up?'”

Maher dismantled each of Minhaj’s fabrications. When justifying his lies, Minhaj said: ‘The emotional truth comes first. The factual truth is secondary.’

He once shared a story about standing at a white girl’s door when he went to pick her up for their homecoming dance.

The unidentified woman in the sob story said the incident never even happened. She explained that she rejected her close friend days before the dance.

The woman also said she and her family have faced online threats and doxing for years because Minhaj failed to adequately conceal her identity and revealed that she was engaged to an Indian American man at the time.

Minhaj claimed that a man called Brother Eric, whose real name is Cory Monteilh, had ‘infiltrated’ his local mosque. Monteilh, said this was completely untrue.

Monteilh said he was in prison in 2002 and only began working for the FBI on counterterrorism measures in 2006.

Minhaj claimed that he stood at a white girl’s door when he picked her up for their homecoming dance, a man named Brother Eric ‘infiltrated’ his local mosque and he saw white powder on his daughter fell while opening a letter.

In a New York interview, the former Daily Show correspondent admitted to making up stories. He said his comedy recipe is 70 percent emotional truth and then 30 percent hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction

“The stories that Mr. Minhaj is telling in his act of eliciting sympathy for himself as a Muslim and a person of color are completely made up,” Maher said.

“If you want to speak truth to power, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say you have to include the truth part.”

One of his most horrific claims was that a suspicious white powder fell on his daughter while he was opening a letter.

Minhaj admitted to the magazine that his daughter had never been exposed to a white powder. The truth is that he opened a letter containing some kind of powder and joked that it might be anthrax.

Maher’s call got personal when he mentioned false accusations Minhaj said about him.

“Because he’s done this with me before, accusing me of saying Muslims should be put in internment camps – something I’ve never even come close to thinking, let alone saying,” the ‘Real Time’ host said.

Maher said: ‘This dangerous idea that has taken hold in America that something is true simply because you want to believe it is true has got to go. When the right does this, we call it conspiracy theories, and rightly so. When the left does this, we call it “emotional truth”

Things got personal when Maher called out lies Minhaj had previously told about himself. He said Minhaj accused him of saying that Muslims should be put in internment camps

‘I think the younger generations have a real problem with wanting to build their identity around being a victim.

“They want racism to fight, not fight racism, they want to fight racism so badly that when it’s not there, they make it up. And there’s enough real racism in the world that it doesn’t help to make more up,” Maher said.

Maher called Minhaj out for having a victim complex and turning himself into one enough that he didn’t face the oppression he claimed.

‘He seems literally to feel cheated by progress, the progress that has denied him any good stories about the suppression of the man. Dude, America is far from the worst,” he said.

‘You are a Muslim married to a Hindu. If you lived in India, she would have to kill you.’

‘If people don’t like you now, it’s probably not because you’re colored. It’s because you’re shady,” he said.