
C-SPAN's description-in-advance of tonight's event is: "Saturday Night Live cast member Colin Jost is the featured entertainer at the 2024 White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, DC."
News:
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The New York Times (metered paywall): Biden Warms Up for a Media Roast on Saturday | At the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, hosted by Colin Jost, President Biden and members of the news media will (hopefully) share some laughs.
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Reuters: Biden to speak at White House Correspondents' Dinner, protests planned
Analysis:
Where to Watch:
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PBS NewsHour via YouTube: Watch Live: Biden speaks at 2024 White House Correspondents' Dinner
https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1cernb8/discussion_thread_2024_white_house_correspondents/
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Should have a few good jokes coming off the Stern interview.
Remember that Trump not only chose not to participate in The White House correspondents’ Dinner, but ordered his entire staff and administration not to participate either.
It just speaks to Trump’s fragility and completely contradicts the whole strongman tough guy persona that him and his supporters paint him as.
We know who the real “snowflakes” are, because by comparison, Biden will be attending today’s event and will likely face an onslaught of roasting, particularly around his age, some of which, will probably come from himself. A little self deprecation shows humility.
When we compare these two candidates, the reality of it doesn’t come close to aligning with what Trump’s supporters have continuously tried to illustrate through their insulting and cruel memes/social media commentaries.
What’s interesting about this, is that Trump, along with many of his most ardent conservative supporters think of humor as amounting to the same old “jokes” about pronouns and Biden’s frailty. To them, insults *are* funny, cruelty is funny, which is why some have come to the conclusion that conservatives really aren’t that funny.
If you want to pregame with some retro fun, a lot of the old ones are available on YouTube. Al Franken did the [1994](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XugMTpKvMfE) and [1996](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7r4CXfIpU) ones. Even if you were old enough to be politically active then, I bet you won’t get all the references. I mean, who remembers Bob Dornan?
CNN’s coverage is the ultimate in cringe-tainment. I’m loving it.