With his speech tonight at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Hasan Minhaj provided better “The Daily Show” marketing than anything Comedy Central has done since Jon Stewart left the show. He also turned in the best WHCD speech since fellow “Daily Show” alum Stephen Colbert in 2006.
But where Colbert’s masterpiece performance came from insulting George W. Bush, a sitting president, to his face – and in the process making it OK for the rest of the media to admit maybe Bush wasn’t a very good president — Minhaj’s performance tonight shined for what amounts to the opposite reason.