White House Correspondent's Dinner: Larry Wilmore

WHCD is what I imagine Rome/Paris/St Petersburg were like before the fall

a revolting spectacle

 

Was money on drones and Blitzer, I thought.

And I didn't mind his ending a bit. People need to relax a bit.

 

Nice to see Wilmore go no holds barred into the millionaire media. Both he and Obama delivered some pointed and harsh critiques.

Our corporate free press just fails us.

 

Wow I am impressed he went after the media

 

The CNN guys, Blitzer and Lemon, were not amused.

 

I cannot bring myself to watch this event. Only exception was last year for the few minutes Keegan-Michael Key did his "anger translator" thing with Obama.

Can you imagine Donald Trump at one of these?

 

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I thought it was a hilarious roast.

The Fourth Estate is just another channel.

Quality news is still alive, just tougher to swallow.

 

They probably have never been mocked like that in their lives.

Funny how you can see Obama grin and take some of the comments, and then genuinely enjoy some of the other jokes. What I see from a lot of black comedians lately is really hitting their audience harder. I saw it with Chapelle when I saw him live. They no longer only make jokes about black people, they still do, but they also make jokes about the audience. It's great - sure you can laugh at my kind or the people easy to laugh at, but can you laugh at yourself?

It's beautiful. He was obviously really nervous though the first 5-10 minutes.

 

Watched it live. Seeing Lemon flip Wilmore off, was pretty funny. Wilmore was spot on with a lot of his jokes, and the room was too uncomfortable to laugh. There were some definite misses in there too.

Of course Larry Wilmore has gone after Lemon on his show several times, so I'm sure the "bird" wasn't just for that one joke.

Jake Tapper also didn't seem to appreciate Obama's joke about him leaving journalism altogether and taking a job at CNN instead.

Obama's jokes were pointed but not quite as cutting as Wilmore's. Thus they went over a little better with those in the room.

The people in the room were the recipients of Wilmore's pointed comedic slashes, and stabs. So it isn't surprising they didn't really laugh too much.

Good stuff.

 

Zero ****s were given

 

Interview begins at 3:11

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that was effing hilarious. Look at the pissant hollywood and DC faces in the crowd. Stewart was on the money, the narcissism within that room is nauseating.

 

Watched this yesterday thanks to the thread bump. Very good.

It really is weird to think that we need guys from Comedy Central to keep our news organizations in check.

 

Is that what you want to do? You are looking for excuses to use the 'n' word?

 

Yes, wherever you go now you can use the n-word. Have fun.