Samantha Bee and Hasan Minhaj Spend Saturday Night Skewering Trump
by EG
When the comedian Hasan Minhaj stepped up to deliver his remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night, he had known for more than two months that President Trump would skip the gala. Samantha Bee, who broadcast her own competing event, called the “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” on the same night, probably never wanted Mr. Trump there in the first place.
But in the absence of Mr. Trump, who instead gave a rally in Harrisburg, Pa., Mr. Minhaj, a correspondent on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” and Ms. Bee, the host of TBS’s “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” took a page from the playbook of this president, whose relationship with the news media has been singularly contentious, and vented their spleens at the press.
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Other Daily Show alumni include Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell.