Who Is Hasan Minhaj? Daily Show Correspondent To Host White House Correspondents’ Dinner

President Donald Trump will not be attending the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and that may be a good thing. That's because the event’s host, “Daily Show” correspondent Hasan Minhaj, might make things a bit awkward for the reality TV star-turned-president.

Minhaj, one of former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart’s last hires before he departed in 2015, has a long history of sharply poking fun at Trump, like most of his contemporaries. But Minhaj’s riffs might come with some personal jabs, given that he’s both a Muslim and the son of immigrants from India.

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At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July, he “reported” from the field for the satirical news show, expressing his panic to conservative supporters of Trump. At the time, the president called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” It was a December 2015 proposal that remained on the president’s campaign site as of Tuesday.

“I didn’t understand — Republicans were showing me so much love. Even their accidental racism was kind of adorable,” he said of the convention’s attendees, just before a woman told him she was “just glad you’re a good one.” He smiled, quipping back, “And I’m glad you’re one of the good ones.”

More recently, following Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, later replaced by a revised but no more constitutional version targeting immigrants from six of those countries, Minhaj broke down the action for an explanatory segment called “Hasan the Record.”

“So it’s not the Muslim ban, but it is a Muslim ban,” he said, his face positioned in the spot where the word “Muslim” would’ve appeared on the screen. “It’s like this: Imagine that this adorable bulldog is a Muslim”—in a voiceover, the dog Minhaj holds appears to say an Arabic greeting. “You can’t hate this bulldog. That’d be wrong. But put him in a Somalia sweater and it’s totally cool to be like, ‘Waterboard that puppy.’”

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A graduate of University of California, Davis, Minhaj rose to prominence working with famed comedians Katt Williams and Gabriel Iglesias. Following appearances on the Comedy Central show “@midnight,” the HBO series “Getting On” and Netflix’s revival of “Arrested Development,” the “Daily Show” hired Minhaj as a correspondent, along with its current host, in 2014.

Comedians have long made headlines for their political jabs at the nearly-one-century-old White House Correspondents’ Dinner, an annual soiree for members of the White House Press Corps, lawmakers and White House staff—who also will not be attending this year, in a show of “solidarity” with Trump.

At the April 2016 event, comedian Larry Wilmore, another “Daily Show” alum, used the N-word in what was meant to be an endearing praise of then President Barack Obama for two successful terms. “Saturday Night Live” cast member Cecily Strong sarcastically addressed women’s issues at the 2015 dinner, noting that telling the audience of politicians “how to do politics” would be like listening to them “telling me what to do with my body.”

Perhaps most famously, Stephen Colbert, who started as a “Daily Show” correspondent before launching his own faux-conservative spinoff, roasted then President George W. Bush in 2006, a comedic set later dubbed by some as “the most controversial” speaker at the Correspondents’ Dinner in its more than 97-year history.