Not Always a Laughing Matter

What began as a comedy bit by Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj for the 72nd annual Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner last Wednesday, shifted at the end to something far different and more serious.  That's when he took on members of Congress, many of who were in the audience, over gun laws.  

I'm sure that elected officials in Congress don't like being lectured by anyone, especially by a comic at a generally light-hearted event.  But to Minhaj's credit, he's quite polite when doing so.  But pointed, as well.

It's a rant that probably would have made the granddaddy of the show, Jon Stewart, proud.  Glad to see the tradition is carrying on so well with the new "correspondents," though it was off-the-air.