At the White House correspondents’ dinner, “The Daily Show” correspondent Hasan Minhaj asked who tweets at 3am sober. That was the best joke he made out of a full 26 minute roast of President Donald Trump for his stance against the media.
Prominent Washington journalists, if not Hollywood stars, celebrated the First Amendment during the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, April 29th, an event that lacked the glitter of past years because of the absence of the president of the United States.
The evening was not without humor aimed at the press and Trump. Headliner, Hasan Minhaj of “The Daily Show” on TV’s Comedy Central, cracked the entertainment.
During his monologue, comedian and “The Daily Show” correspondent Hasan Minhaj said that he was explicitly told not to go after the absent President Trump or the administration – but if true, he certainly ignored the marching order. (“You were not told that,” White House Correspondents’ Association president Jeff Mason could be heard saying off-screen.)
Besides the ‘Who tweets at 3am sober’ quip, there were jokes about Russia, the president’s golf addiction, members of Trump administration, including Sean Spicer, Mike Pence, Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon. Members of the media did not go unnoticed during Hasan’s White House correspondents’ dinner speech. Worth mentioning is how CNN calls everything “breaking news”; how if he bombs his monologue, MSNBC’s Brian Williams will say he did a stunning job; how Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly’s $25 million exit package is the “only package he won’t force a woman to touch.”
Watch here now Hasan Minhaj’s full White House Correspondents Dinner speech and get a good ‘political laugh’.
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Who tweets at 3am sober? asked Hasan Minhaj, the ‘Daily Show’ comedian correspondent who hosted the WHCD which was not attended by President Donald Trump.