https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/business/white-house-correspondents-dinner.html
The president skipped the event. Celebrities stayed away. Comedians turned down the gig. They knew better. Why hang out with a bunch of losers.
Promoting the First Amendment was, in the end, the safest possible angle for the Correspondents’ Association, which liaises with the White House on behalf of its members and was wary of blasting the president in absentia. At one point, Mr. Mason recited the text of the amendment onstage. The pussies have their tails firmly tucked. Bet he needed a teleprompter, probably reading for the first time.
Hasan Minhaj looked out at the hundreds of journalists gathered in a subterranean hotel ballroom here on Saturday night and declared, “This has been one of the strangest events I have ever done in my life.” Just like a wake, hahahaha.
But even as Mr. Trump heckled the proceedings in real time — joking at a Pennsylvania rally about reporters’ “consoling each other in a Washington ballroom” — attendees said the often-frivolous dinner felt oddly profound. Hilarious, consoling each other. Beautiful!!
Wary of looking biased, many prominent journalists in the ballroom kept a poker face during Mr. Minhaj’s nastier punch lines. Just like beaten dogs taking shelter under a table, LOL!
The president skipped the event. Celebrities stayed away. Comedians turned down the gig. They knew better. Why hang out with a bunch of losers.
Promoting the First Amendment was, in the end, the safest possible angle for the Correspondents’ Association, which liaises with the White House on behalf of its members and was wary of blasting the president in absentia. At one point, Mr. Mason recited the text of the amendment onstage. The pussies have their tails firmly tucked. Bet he needed a teleprompter, probably reading for the first time.
Hasan Minhaj looked out at the hundreds of journalists gathered in a subterranean hotel ballroom here on Saturday night and declared, “This has been one of the strangest events I have ever done in my life.” Just like a wake, hahahaha.
But even as Mr. Trump heckled the proceedings in real time — joking at a Pennsylvania rally about reporters’ “consoling each other in a Washington ballroom” — attendees said the often-frivolous dinner felt oddly profound. Hilarious, consoling each other. Beautiful!!
Wary of looking biased, many prominent journalists in the ballroom kept a poker face during Mr. Minhaj’s nastier punch lines. Just like beaten dogs taking shelter under a table, LOL!
