“Can I trust you, Brooklyn?” Hasan Minhaj asks at the beginning of the trailer for The King’s Jester, his upcoming Netflix special. The former host of Netflix’s Patriot Act has been a vocal critic of powerful regimes in Saudi Arabia, India, and the United States, so it’s not surprising he has trust issues. “Sometimes when you push the envelope, the envelope pushes back,” flashes a tagline in the trailer.
Like Patriot Act and Homecoming King, The King’s Jester appears to be a multimedia experience complete with screens and audio editing. The trailer also teases how he came up with the name for the former show with Minhaj staring intensely into camera and exclaiming, “That’s why, when I finally got my own shot to do my own show on Netflix, I named that shit Patriot Act.” The King’s Jester premieres October 4 on Netflix.
