This Year's White House Correspondents' Dinner Will Abandon Any Semblance of Fun
The White House Correspondents’ Association, patron saint of an event that shouldn’t exist to begin with, is trying something new this year: making its annual Correspondents’ Dinner as boring as humanly possible to avoid a repeat of last year’s controversy.
In previous years, the WHCD has been a circlejerk of every name-brand journalist, joined by celebrity guests and, generally, the president, for a night of chummy collegiality.
Most years, the WHCA hires a comedian to lightly roast everyone—but not too much!—for fear of dislodging the massive sticks up the asses of everyone in the room, as Michelle Wolf did last year. As you may remember, the president skipped the event and sent Sarah Huckabee Sanders in his place, and Wolf let her have it, telling jokes that violated some incredibly boring line between “acceptable to idiot blowhards” and “not acceptable to idiot blowhards.” This kicked off a days-long, very stupid controversy mainly fueled by the kind of people who work for The Hill.