Comedy, politics collide as Trump skips event

>>> WE ARE HERE TO TALK ABOUT
THE TRUTH.
IT IS 2017 AND WE ARE LIVING IN
THE GOLDEN AGE OF LYING.
DONALD TRUMP IS LIAR IN CHIEF.
REMEMBER, YOU GUYS ARE PUBLIC
ENEMY NUMBER ONE.
YOU ARE HIS BIGGEST ENEMY.
JOURNALISTS, ISIS, NORMAL LIKE
TIES.
AND SOMEHOW YOU'RE THE BAD GUYS.
>>> COMEDIAN AND "DAILY SHOW"
CORRESPONDENT HASAN MINAJ THERE.
>> AS YOU KNOW BY NOW, THE
PRESIDENT WAS NOT THERE TO HEAR
IT.
HE HELD 100 DAY RALLY LAST NIGHT
IN PENNSYLVANIA INSTEAD.
IT'S THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1981 A
SITTING PRESIDENT DOES NOT
ATTEND THAT EVENT.
JOINING IS A FORMER SPEECH
WRITER FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA,
DAVID LIPS.
YOU WERE AT THE DINNER LAST
NIGHT AND TWEETED OUT THAT WAS A
HELL OF A PERFORMANCE FROM HASAN
MINAJ.
I ASSUME THAT IS A COMPLIMENT.
WHY?
>> HE WAS JUST REALLY FUNNY AND
I THINK THAT IS THE NUMBER ONE
GOAL OF ANY COMEDIAN AT THESE
DINNERS.
YOU HAVE TO HAVE GOOD MATERIAL
AND DELIVER IT WELL.
HE SPOKE ABOUT HOW HE FELT AND
HE TOOK SOME REAL SHOTS.
HE DIDN'T HOLD ANY PUNCHES BACK.
>> DO YOU GET THE.
>> I THINK THEY WERE
DISAPPOINTED PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS
NOT THERE BECAUSE IT SAYS
SOMETHING FOR THE PRESIDENT TO
SHOW UP AND DEMONSTRATE HE CAN
TAKE A JOKE.
I DON'T THINK ANYONE THOUGHT IF
PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS HERE HE
WOULD BE DELIVERING HILARIOUS
JOKES RIGHT NOW.
THAT IS NOT REALLY HIS TRACK
RECORD.
>> LET'S LISTEN.
>> WE GOT TO ADDRESS THE
ELEPHANT THAT IS NOT IN THE
ROOM.
THE LEADER OF OUR COUNTRY IS NOT
HERE AND THAT IS BECAUSE HE
LIVES IN MOSCOW.
IT IS A VERY LONG FLIGHT.
IT WOULD BE HARD FOR VLAD TO
MAKE IT.
VLAD CAN'T MAKE IT ON A
SATURDAY.
IT'S A SATURDAY!
AS FOR THE OTHER GUY, I THINK
HE'S IN PENNSYLVANIA BECAUSE HE
CAN'T TAKE A JOKE.
>> YOU WERE THE JOKE GUY FOR
PRESIDENT OBAMA.
I HOPE THAT ISN'T TOO DISMISSIVE
BUT YOU WERE THE COD WRITER.
DO YOU THINK IT'S MORE DIFFICULT
TO ROAST THE PRESIDENT WHO IS
TEN FEET AWAY FROM YOU OR, IN
THIS YEAR, PRESIDENT NOT BEING
THERE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 36
YEARS, ROAST HIM WHEN HE IS NOT
THERE?
>> WELL, I THINK IT IS GENERALLY
EASIER TO ROAST THIS PRESIDENT
BECAUSE, AT THE MOMENT, HIS
SLATE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS IS
PRETTY THIN AND HIS SLATE OF
CONTROVERSIES IS VERY LONG AND I
THINK YOU SAW LAST NIGHT.
IN THAT SENSE IT'S AN EASIER
JOB.
I THINK IN SOME WAYS IT'S EASIER
TO ROAST THE PRESIDENT WHEN HE
IS THERE BECAUSE IT'S PART OF
THIS TRADITION.
IT WAS A BRAVE DECISION TO GO
AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND TELL
THE JOKES HE WANTED TO TELL
WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT HOW IT'S
GOING TO LOOK.
HE IS SAYING YOU KNOW WHAT?
THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO DO.
THIS IS MY MOMENT.
AND I'M GOING TO DO THE KIND OF
COMEDY I BELIEVE IN.
>> AS A SPEECH WRITER, AS A
COMEDY WRITER, AS VICTOR POINTED
OUT, YOU HAD TO HAVE, WERE YOU
NOT, SITTING IN THE AUDIENCE
LISTENING TO SOME OF THIS
THINKING OF SOME OF THE THINGS
YOU MIGHT HAVE WRITTEN FOR THIS
MOMENT?
DO YOU HAVE ANY OF THOSE AND
WOULD YOU SHARE THEM WITH US?
>> NO.
I WILL TELL YOU THIS WAS A GREAT
YEAR FOR ME TO BE WATCHING
BECAUSE I HAD NOTHING AT STAKE
OTHER THAN GETTING TO ENJOY THE
OPEN BAR BEFOREHAND.
I WAS VERY MUCH ENJOYING BEING
TOTALLY JUST AN ON-LOOKER LAST
N
NIGHT.
>> YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING
GOING THROUGH YOUR HEAD YOU
THINK YOU WOULD HAVE USED HAD IT
BEEN UNDER YOUR EMPLOYMENT TO DO
SO THIS YEAR?
>> NO.
YOU ALWAYS WATCH JOKES AND
YOU'RE THINKING IN THE BACK OF
YOUR HEAD.
YOU'RE NOT JUST LAUGHING BUT
THINKING WAS THAT GOOD OR WAS IT
NOT?
I THOUGHT HASAN'S MATERIAL, THE
WRITING OF THE JOKES WAS VERY
SOLID.
IT WASN'T JUST THE FACT THAT HE
WAS IN THE ROOM AND PRESIDENT
TRUMP WAS NOT.
HE WENT OUT WITH REALLY GOOD
MATERIAL AND HE DELIVERED GOOD
STUFF.
I CERTAINLY DIDN'T FIND MYSELF
THINKING, MAN, I SHOULD HAVE HAD
A HAND IN THAT.
I THOUGHT HIS WRITERS DID GREAT
AND HE DID GREAT.
>> THE PRESIDENT SAYS HE

Comedy, politics collide as Trump skips event

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