- 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 joined The Daily Show (1996) in 2014, the last correspondent hired by Jon Stewart.
- He is fluent in Urdu.
- He attended the University of California, Davis, majoring in political science.
- He hosted the 2017 White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C.
- His first stand-up special, Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King (2017), premiered on Netflix in May 2017.
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