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| White House Correspondents' dinner live: comedian Larry Wilmore roasts the president and the Washington press corps | White House Correspondents' dinner live: comedian Larry Wilmore roasts the president and the Washington press corps |
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| And with that, the final White House Correspondents’ Dinner of the Obama administration came to an end with, if not raucous cheers, not exactly the hostile reception past comedians have received. | |
| You can’t say that Larry Wilmore killed: his humor – as it normally is – was a bit more of the wait-did-he-really-say-that variety, which is definitely not in keeping with the typical WHCD crowd ... which tends to think that he perhaps ought not to have said it. And, Wilmore’s jibes at CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Don Lemon, MSNBC’s morning show juggernaut Morning Joe and the death of print journalism (all topics well-covered at the event in past years, but normally by the president) were pretty unpopular with the likely inebriated crowd, earning him a couple of loud boos from folks who probably ought to have known better. | |
| Laughing at himself is a skill the president managed to perfect at these things over the years; it’s one that not all the journalists in attendance seem to have mastered (though Don Lemon pasted a smile on and waved at the crowd). At least his reception wasn’t so poor that, like the year after Colbert made fun of George W Bush, the association will be tempted to find the most banal, grandparent-friendly comedian possible. | |
| And next year will bring a new president: the question now is whether that president will be able to laugh at him or herself, and how much material with which she or he will give the host to work. | |
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| Wilmore ends by noting that, in his lifetime, we’ve gone from a country that couldn’t accept a black quarterback on a footbalk team to one that elected a black president. “So Mr President, I’m going to keep it 100. Yo, Barry, you did it my n*****.” | |
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| On one of Obama’s biggest failed promises. “I just got a note from the president saying that if you want another drink, you should order it now because the bar will be closing down. Of course, he said the same thing about Guantanamo, so you have at least another eight years.” | |
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| Returning to Obama: “I don’t know when we’re getting a black president again. I mean, they’re not even going to let Morgan Freeman be president in movies for a while.” | |
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| On Ted Cruz: “Man, everybody hates Ted Cruz. Even OJ Simpson said, ‘Man, that guy’s just hard to like’.” | |
| “There’s a joke going around the internet that Ted Cruz is actually the Zodiac Killer. That’s absurd: some people actually liked the Zodiac Killer.” | |
| “John Boehner came out of retirement and described Ted Cruz as ‘Lucifer in the flesh.’ Lucifer! I mean, that is not fair. Lucifer is horrible, but he’s not the Zodiac killer.” | |
| “I don’t even think Ted Cruz wants to be president. I just think he’s criss-crossing the country Zodiac-killing.” | |
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| More on Trump: “Morning Joe has their head so far up Trump’s ass, they bumped into Chris Christie.” | |
| “Donald Trump looks like the rich dad in every single episode of Law and Order where the frat kid accidentally strangles the hooker, doesn’t he. Or, as they say here at the Washington Hilton, ‘Tuesdays’.” | |
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| On Donald Trump: “Donald Trump says he’s going to try to be more presidential, it’s true. He’s serious about it, too. So he says that now when he boasts about his genitalia during a debate, he’s only going to refer to it as his President Johnson. LBJ? Oh, very good.” | |
| “I can’t understand why everyone treats Donald Trump with kid gloves. And then I realized they’re the only gloves that will fit his stupid little baby hands.” | |
| .@larrywilmore: on Donald Trump. #WHCD #WHCD2016 #NerdPromhttps://t.co/FiI2OLDh6z | |
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| On Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders: “Bernies’s been hanging around with rapper Killer Mike, or as Hillary Clinton calls him ‘Super Predator Mike’.” | |
| “Hillary Clinton was flustered when a Black Lives Matter protestor challenged her. I haven’t seen a white lady that upset over being blind-sided by a black person since Kelly Ripa.” | |
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| On Bernie Sanders: “He recently had a hernia operation. His doctors say it’s his own fault, for trying to lift the hopes of the disenfranchised. You gotta stretch before you do that, Senator.” | |
| .@larrywilmore jokes that @BernieSanders "usually goes to the White House Correspondents' Early Bird Dinner." #WHCDhttps://t.co/LDehfqkVX2 | |
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| On Ben Carson: “He praised [Andrew] Jackson, saying he was a tremendous president. From the grave, Andrew Jackson replied ‘What did that jigaboo say?’” | |
| On Chris Christie: “He RSVP’d for three: him, his wife and Donald Trump’s dry-cleaning. Chris lost a lot of weight recently, didn’t he. He said he just eliminated everything from his routine that wasn’t necessary, like his self-pride and dignity.” | |
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| After a few more anti-CNN jokes (one of which earned him boos “I used to watch it back when it was a news network”), it was Fox’s turn: “And not to throw any shade, but Fox News is the highest-rated cable news channel among viewers who have no idea what shade means.” | |
| And after joking about Fox’s wall-to-wall anti-Beyoncé coverage post Superbowl: “I think Fox secretly likes Beyoncé, though. They just renamed The Kelly File ‘Becky With The Good Hair”. | |
| On MSNBC: “Which actually now stands for Missing a Significant Number of Black Correspondents.” | |
| “MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.” | |
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| On broadcast media: “C-Span is carrying tonight’s dinner live, which is ironic, because most of their viewers aren’t. It’s true, guys. C-Span is the number one network among people who died watching TV and no one’s found them yet.” | On broadcast media: “C-Span is carrying tonight’s dinner live, which is ironic, because most of their viewers aren’t. It’s true, guys. C-Span is the number one network among people who died watching TV and no one’s found them yet.” |
| .@LarryWilmore: "C-SPAN is the number 1 network among people who died watching TV & no one's found them yet." #WHCDhttps://t.co/UvCc5N3jkW | .@LarryWilmore: "C-SPAN is the number 1 network among people who died watching TV & no one's found them yet." #WHCDhttps://t.co/UvCc5N3jkW |
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| He also cracks a Jeb Bush suicide watch joke, to groans. | He also cracks a Jeb Bush suicide watch joke, to groans. |
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| On being in the company of the elite: “It’s nice to match the names to the faces in the Panama Papers.” | On being in the company of the elite: “It’s nice to match the names to the faces in the Panama Papers.” |