White House Correspondents' Dinner 2022: Top moments, jokes

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• Tracker’s Justin Hartley Teases What Comes Next After Post-Super Bowl Debut: Can Colter’s Mom Be Trusted?
• What’s on TV This Week: ‘Barry,’ ‘Ozark,’ International Jazz Day, the NFL Draft and more
• White House Correspondents' Dinner: Top Trevor Noah jokes and analysis
• Joe Biden Says He's "Happy to" Debate Donald Trump, Whose Team Quickly Agrees
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But they also share more than you might think. See, journalists (myself included) tend to think that we are far, far funnier than we actually are. And I’d bet that member of the WHCA, not Eichner or Corden, wrote those bits. "My name is Trevor Noah, and I am really honored to be here," began "The Daily Show" host, before launching into a rollicking monologue that poked fun at the president, the press, Congress, Covid-19 and members of the Biden White House. My colleague Liz Plank already shared some of the shots Trevor Noah took at Fox News tonight, but he saved some of his most cutting Fox-related remarks for primetime host Sean Hannity and the network’s former CEO and founder, the late Roger Ailes.

Tracker’s Justin Hartley Teases What Comes Next After Post-Super Bowl Debut: Can Colter’s Mom Be Trusted?

As I told you at this dinner last year, as I told you in the Oval Office, you’ve raised an incredible son. We also keep the faith for Austin — Austin Tice. (Applause.)  She knows from our several conversations — the conversations with me and my senior staff — we are not giving up.

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He will follow Biden’s stand-up material — and given the media events of the week, there will be plenty of material. Hosted by SNL’s Colin Jost, the 2024 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner will take place Saturday night. The show will be staged at that shrine to comedy, the Washington, D.C. Hilton. The event, which lets comedians mock powerful people (and lets powerful people, like President Joe Biden, live action role play being comedians) is usually a flaming hot mess atop a dumpster floating, languidly, in a lake of chunky sludge. Just weeks earlier, dozens of people who attended the Gridiron Club dinner — an annual roast of Washington politicians and media figures — tested positive for Covid.

White House Correspondents' Dinner: Top Trevor Noah jokes and analysis

Wolf's performance caused a frenzy among political and media figures who argued over whether her pointed jokes aimed at then-White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders were inappropriate. "I want to close my final White House correspondents’ dinner by just saying thank you," Obama told the crowd. "I’m very proud of what you’ve done. It has been an honor and a privilege to work side by side with you to strengthen our democracy." Shoutout to the Marine Corps band, which is the main musical guest for tonight’s dinner. As diners began to feast, the band played the “Armed Forces Medley,” which is about as rocking a good time as it sounds.

Technology, media and political leaders gather for the annual pre-weekend event, held at the residence of Irish ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason. Co-hosts are Allen Gannet, Eric Kuhn, Shua Goodwin, Susanna Quinn, Sarah Kate Ellis and Stellene Volandes. Roy Wood Jr., correspondent for The Daily Show, will headline the event.

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CBS News Radio White House correspondent and White House Correspondents’ Association. President Steven Portnoy will also be on hand to deliver remarks. The United States Marine Band will accompany the show, which will reportedly be attended by Kim Kardashian, Pete Davidson, Drew Barrymore and Michael Keaton. The event made a splash in 2018 with host Michelle Wolf, whose raunchy jokes about the Trump administration and others led to both praise and backlash, notably from Trump himself, who swore he wouldn’t let a comedian host the dinner again.

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It seems Trump has more in common with kings and dictators than American presidents; like so many of them, he prefers to be feared — not laughed at. Some of us (and perhaps also you, dear reader), came of age at a time when the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was one of the social events of the year in Washington. As a recent college grad living in the city, I was of the many people enamored with “Nerd Prom” and all of the events surrounding it. Coachella was back with a post(ish)-pandemic bang this year and so is the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

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Certain to puncture some egos and boost others, Fox News Channel’s Jimmy Failla will host Fox News Saturday Night from the WHCD red carpet from 9-11 p.m. Set to sit down with other FNC talents like White House correspondent Peter Doocy and Fox News Sunday anchor Shannon Bream, Failla will also offer commentary on both Biden and Jost’s remarks. The president took the opportunity to make light of the criticism he has faced in his 18 months in office and take aim at his predecessor, the Republican Party and the members of the press. Scholarships for promising journalism students play an important part in the associations’ mission. Read about the talented recipients who were honored and learn about our expanded scholarship program.

And besides, the WHCA Dinner may have a socially redeeming function. The anthropologist Victor Turner observed that among the Ndembu people of Zimbabwe it was customary for the king-elect to be subjected to a period of ritualistic humiliation. The purpose of the insults they absorbed — and rumor has it these monarchs got roasted hard by their soon-to-be subjects — was to instill humility. The initiation served to remind the anointed one of his sacred duty to rule judiciously.

This year's dinner felt markedly different than it did during the Trump era because the comedians and participants had more room to talk about where the media has failed than where the president has failed. And comedian Billy Eichner seemed to channel the sentiments of many at the party when he said that while the pandemic is still definitely underway, it’s time to live life again. The Comcast-owned outlet has both pre-dinner and afterparty events planned, as well as live coverage starting at 6 p.m. Three years later, Calvin Coolidge became the first president to attend and all have since, except Trump. Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon opted not to attend every year of their presidencies, however, and Ronald Reagan, then recovering from an assassination attempt, missed the 1981 installment — but called in from Camp David.

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Semafor, which launched last fall, hosts an event at the home of Justin Smith, its CEO. Let Biden, that lyrical criminal, rock the mic, and slay with his rapier wit. Let Jost gain even greater fame among his growing (and unique) fanbase. And let all the celebrities, journos, and pols who come to the Washington Hilton Saturday visit the surrounding neighborhood after the show.

"They're all here, vaccinated and boosted. All of them,” he said to roaring applause. The camera panned to a few of the several Fox News reporters in the room. Did any of them find it funny? I'll report back after tonight's parties. Trevor Noah also mentioned the risks in his monologue. But with the dinner ended and attendees scattered into the night to continue the party, all we can do now is wait and see (and test!) Stay safe out there, nerds. $1,000 "award recognizes a video or photojournalist for uniquely covering the presidency from a journalistic standpoint, either at the White House or in the field. This could be breaking news, a scheduled event or feature coverage."[209] Debuted in 2020. After mentioning his forthcoming speech, Mr. Biden said he was concerned that members of the news media were not hard enough on his political opponent, Mr. Trump. During an interview on Friday with the Sirius XM radio host Howard Stern, Mr. Biden said he would emphasize the importance of a free press.

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Pharrell Williams, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) will be honored at the annual event which caps two days of advocacy on Capitol Hill. The benefit at Hamilton Live raises funds for the Grammy Museum. The presence of POTUS and FLOTUS is a contrast to the Trump years, when the onetime Celebrity Apprentice host not only skipped the dinner but counter-programmed the event with a rally in which he bashed the dinner as elitist.

Keri Russell, 48, recently handed fans of The Americans a new favorite show with Netflix's The Diplomat, in which she stars as a rugged foreign service officer thrown into the more polished role of U.S. ambassador to the U.K. The event "did not feel like a normal gig to me," Poundstone told Elle in 2015. "There was a real kind of fairytale quality to a lot of it."