Hasan Minhaj faced an uphill task taking on the keynote speech at the 2017 White House Correspondents Association dinner, the first in 36 years to not feature the sitting president (and that, in 1981, was because President Reagan had been shot in an assassination attempt). No Trump. No Trump lackeys in his stead. And Samantha […]
Continue ReadingThe 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner might not feature the sitting president of the United States, his staffers or even some of the celebrity weirdness that makes the media dub the annual banquet “nerd prom,” but it’ll still feature a keynote address from a comedian. And one who’s Muslim-American, at that. Hasan Minhaj, correspondent for […]
Continue ReadingDaily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj just signed on for one of the toughest comedy gigs of the year. According to The New York Times, Minhaj will host this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 29th, following the footsteps of previous hosts like Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Conan O’Brien, Cecily Strong, and last year’s host Larry […]
Continue ReadingFull Frontal with Samantha Bee and TBS have announced its first “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” which will take place on Saturday, April 29, 2017 at The Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. It’ll take place at the exact same time as the actual WHCD — which hasn’t announced much more than its date yet. “Executives […]
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