When most of us banter with friends, the barbs fly and then are pretty quickly forgotten, but Hasan Minhaj seems to have a sixth sense for the potential in a trivial quarrel. “The seed of an idea will always be something super small,” the comedian Minhaj tells Tudum about the origin of the jokes in his new stand-up special. “It’ll just be a tiny nugget of an idea or an argument.”

Hasan Minhaj: Off with His Headis a smorgasbord of food for thought, and it’s largely a result of real-life interactions and observations — on pet antidepressants, therapy, and selfishness; on Zillow, inheritance, and hoarding — that Minhaj jotted down on paper before developing them into full-fledged jokes. Read on to learn more about Minhaj’s creative process — and everything else there is to know about his new special.

Fusing humor and social commentary, Minhaj covers a range of subjects...