'The Daily Show' comedian Hasan Minhaj puts his life onstage

NEW YORK (AP) — On a small downtown stage, comedian Hasan Minhaj is practicing for his latest gig. He wonders aloud: What do immigrants love? Then he answers himself. "They love secrets. They love them! They love bottling them up inside and then unleashing them on you when it's no longer relevant," he said. "'What? Mom's a communist? Dad's a ninja? Why are you telling me this now?' I feel like every conversation with my father is like an Manoj Night Shyamalan movie — 90 minutes of buildup to no pay off." Minhaj, a correspondent with "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central has turned his sharp, satirical skills to his own life in a one-man show "Homecoming King," which starts Thursday at the Cherry Lane Theatre. It's a show about a first-generation Indian-American navigating between those two worlds but never completely at ease in either. His humor has that fish-out-of-water feel. "I'm an Indian-American, Muslim comedian that's married to a girl that's Hindu. I'm constantly outside every single community," he said in an interview. The show explores his experiences growing up in northern California with bullies, being slapped by his parents, discovering a sister he knew nothing about and his long walks home from school because he was shunned from carpools.