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"No one wanted to do this, so of course, it lands in the hands of an immigrant"

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After it was announced, following a prolonged search, that Daily Show senior correspondent Hasan Minhaj would be the host of this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a number of Who Is Hasan Minhaj-style pieces followed, something that wouldn’t have been necessary for some of the more well-known names to host Correspondents’ dinners past.

And Minhaj alluded to his relative unfamiliarity in his speech at this year’s president-less, celebrity-less dinner. “I would say it is an honor to be here, but that would be an alternative fact,” he said.

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