The White House Correspondents’ Dinner usually occurs in February, but has been delayed amidst the tumult of the new administration of a president who has dubbed the press the “opposition party.”
The Daily Show Senior Correspondent Hasan Minhaj has been selected as the featured entertainer at the 2017 White House Correspondents’ Dinner later this month, White House Correspondents Association President Jeff Mason announced Tuesday.
Minhaj will keep alive the tradition of a comedian roasting the president and the White House press corps at the annual dinner feting the journalists who cover White House politics.
Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee will be hosting her own rival event, the Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, at the same time on the same night, in order to “properly roast” the President.