"Hasan, are you out of your mind?!" "Cancel the billboards.That is not funny!" "That is...
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"Hasan, are you out of your mind?!" "Cancel the billboards.
That is not funny!" "That is defamation!" I go, "Sam, calm down." "You're a liar." "You don't even know what's funny." And it kills him, he goes,
"That may be true, but you cannot do that." "Do not cross that line!" I go, "Why not, Sam?" He goes, "Great question, Hasan." "You see, according to American tort law, there is something called
'the reasonable person standard.'" "It says that a joke
is clearly not defamation if it's clearly a joke
to a reasonable person." "And the Supreme Court
has ruled repeatedly that most Americans are reasonable
and of average intelligence."
That is not funny!" "That is defamation!" I go, "Sam, calm down." "You're a liar." "You don't even know what's funny." And it kills him, he goes,
"That may be true, but you cannot do that." "Do not cross that line!" I go, "Why not, Sam?" He goes, "Great question, Hasan." "You see, according to American tort law, there is something called
'the reasonable person standard.'" "It says that a joke
is clearly not defamation if it's clearly a joke
to a reasonable person." "And the Supreme Court
has ruled repeatedly that most Americans are reasonable
and of average intelligence."
Full Transcript
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"Hasan, are you out of your mind?!"
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"Cancel the billboards.
That is not funny!"
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"That is defamation!"
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I go, "Sam, calm down."
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"You're a liar."
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"You don't even know what's funny."
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And it kills him, he goes,
"That may be true,
00:00:21.073 --> 00:00:23.524
but you cannot do that."
00:00:23.649 --> 00:00:25.015
"Do not cross that line!"
00:00:25.234 --> 00:00:27.569
I go, "Why not, Sam?"
00:00:27.652 --> 00:00:29.654
He goes, "Great question, Hasan."
00:00:29.739 --> 00:00:31.405
"You see, according to American tort law,
00:00:31.489 --> 00:00:34.242
there is something called
'the reasonable person standard.'"
00:00:34.325 --> 00:00:37.001
"It says that a joke
is clearly not defamation
00:00:37.162 --> 00:00:39.914
if it's clearly a joke
to a reasonable person."
00:00:39.999 --> 00:00:41.959
"And the Supreme Court
has ruled repeatedly
00:00:42.002 --> 00:00:46.254
that most Americans are reasonable
and of average intelligence."
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Movie Summary
Features comedian Hasan Minhaj as he shares his thoughts on fertility, fatherhood, and freedom of speech by discussing some of his recent life events.
