As an established comedy institution, The Daily Show is responsible for launching the careers of many of its esteemed correspondents. Traditionally, when one of these series regulars jumps ship to kickstart their acting career or take the helm of their own weekly talk show, they get one final segment to say their…
As teased back in March, Netflix has officially announced Patriot Act, a new talk show from comedian Hasan Minhaj that will premiere on October 28. The weekly show already has a 32-episode order, which a press release says is “unprecedented,” and it makes Minhaj the first Indian-American host of a weekly comedy show…
Laughter is somehow different now. Blame Trump, blame outrage culture, or blame the terrifying rise of public shaming, but rarely does a week go by that some public (or even not-so-public figure) makes a joke that ignites a flurry of angry tweets and thinkpieces. Does this response fall under the umbrella of the First…
In a bid to back up the “700 original series and movies” figure it threw out earlier this week, Netflix has announced a weekly talk show with Hasan Minhaj.
For the past couple of years, The A.V. Club has used its 11 Questions feature to ask celebrities about their first concerts and most embarrassing phases. Part of that feature—the 12th question—also asked the interviewee to come up with a question for the next interview subject without generally knowing who they were.…
While in our hometown of Chicago, the Daily Show correspondents stopped by the A.V. Club office for a thoughtful, hilarious Facebook Live discussion about comedy, politics, and the state of the show. In this snippet from that interview, the correspondents tell us how they prepare for their field pieces.
While in our hometown Chicago, The Daily Show correspondents stopped by The A.V. Club office for a thoughtful, hilarious Facebook Live discussion about comedy, politics, and the state of the show. In this snippet from that interview, the correspondents discuss the feasibility of a conservative alternative to The Daily…
While opening the faux “Presidential Library” dedicated to all the terrible shit Donald Trump has said on Twitter, Trevor Noah obliquely referenced that time he was excoriated for saying terrible shit on Twitter. “I like the Donald J. Trump tweets because he is the first millennial president, and as a millennial I…
“[Hasan] Minhaj, with his boyish handsomeness and his California bro’s swagger (the special is filmed in Minhaj’s hometown of Davis) comes out of the gate dropping a clutter of pop cultural signposts (Drake, YOLO, comic books, #blessed, and the like) that belie the tightly written, startlingly heartfelt nature of his…
Hasan Minhaj shares a lot of comic ground with Aziz Ansari. Beyond their experiences growing up in 1990s America as the children of Indian immigrants, the two comedians have developed a similarly self-aggrandizing onstage brashness, a baller’s persona where name-dropping cockiness and pop culture markers point up…
In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our next interviewee.
Eleven years ago, Stephen Colbert set an almost impossible bar for the headliner of the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner to follow, delivering a brutally funny and honest takedown of the George W. Bush presidency, directly to the man’s face. Nobody’s ever matched it, but tonight’s host, The Daily…
The guest list for this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner is probably short enough to allow most people an extra plus-one. Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, The New Yorker, and other outlets have backed out of events surrounding the big political gathering, which will also be devoid of its biggest target—Donald Trump…
As anyone who read our Trevor Noah interview yesterday knows, The Daily Show is sending its entire show to cover both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. The cameramen are going. The writers are going. The interns are going. And, yes, the correspondents are going.
Now that Michael Che and Larry Wilmore have turned in their letters of resignation, The Daily Show is in need of funny people. And rather than place a Craigslist ad, Comedy Central has recruited two new correspondents from the ranks of stand-up.
