Hasan Minhaj was born on September 23, 1985 in Davis, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Daily Show (1996), 2017 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2017) and Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King (2017). He has been married to Meena Patel since January 2015.

He is fluent in Urdu. His first stand-up special, Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King (2017), premiered on Netflix in May 2017. He joined The Daily Show (1996) in 2014, the last correspondent hired by Jon Stewart . His parents are from Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. His father is a chemist and his mother is a doctor. Until Hasan was 8, he and his father lived alone while his mother finished medical school in India. He has a younger sister, Ayesha, an attorney. He hosted the 2017 White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C. He attended the University of California, Davis, majoring in political science.