White House Correspondents' Dinner

WASHINGTON (AP) — Comedians are making their return to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after last year’s hiatus. Kenan Thompson of “Saturday Night Live” and Hasan Minhaj of Netflix’s “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj” will headline this year’s dinner, which takes place April 25. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Presidents and first ladies have traditionally […]

The folks behind the White House Correspondents’ Dinner were having a hard time finding someone to serve as the comedic host…until now. Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah says he wouldn’t mind taking the job, which is still waiting to be filled. The comedian, who mocks Donald Trump nightly on “The Daily Show,” says he hasn’t been […]

  Words matter. But it also matters HOW we use those words. We all know there’s a lot of controversy right now over a particular word that ‘Nightly Show’ host Larry Wilmore used at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night. Here’s how he ended his set. “So Mr. President I’m gonna keep it 100. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama wasn’t offended by comedian Larry Wilmore’s use of a racial slur at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Wilmore concluded his remarks noting progress on race and how much it meant to him that a black man was president. He concluded: “Yo […]

Larry Wilmore kept his speech all the way real, saluting the POTUS with, “Yo, Barry, you did it, my nigga!”

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. If President Obama wanted to, he could be a stand up comedian without missing a beat. All that to say that once again he was in top form as Comedian in Chief Saturday night at his final appearance at the White House Correspondents Dinner. If you […]

Before the great “unblackening” happens at the White House in 2016, comedian Larry Wilmore will have his unfiltered say in front of the president himself. The host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show has been hired as the featured entertainer of next year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner – the final dinner with President Barack Obama as president. […]

The star of the hit show, ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Uzo Aduba is widely known for her character ‘Crazy Eyes’, the bantu-knotted inmate who’s known for her quirky behavior, including “marking her territory”, has quicky become the fan-favorite.   Aduba was spotted at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and let’s just say, she left […]

President Obama turned biting comedian again this year for his speech at the 100th annual White House Correspondent’s Dinner where Hollywood meets Washington, D.C. in the so-called Nerd Prom. Media outlets like MSNBC, CBS, NPR, Politico, CNN and others add the Hollywood elite to their tables to add some star quality to the dinner. This year’s […]