'The View' co-host explained that comics often exaggerate stories because that makes them more interesting.
“If you’re gonna hold a comic to the point where you’re gonna check up on their stories,” she continued, “you have to understand, a lot of it is not the exact thing that happened because why would we tell exactly what happened? It ain’t that interesting.”
Toward the end of the segment on Minhaj, Goldberg doubled down and explained that a lot of the things comics will joke about have grains of truth but aren’t meant to be taken so seriously. “That’s our job,” the co-host concluded, “a seed of truth, sometimes the truth and sometimes total BS.”that found that parts of Minhaj’s onstage anecdotes were seemingly untrue and could not be verified, prompting the comedian to release a statement.
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