White House Correspondents' Dinner

[Bad Dingo]

Anyone watch? I'm just watching it now. They had a bunch of SNL clips featuring sketches about past presidents, candidates, and misc. politicians. Unless somehow I missed it, there were none of Kate McKinnon playing Hillary Clinton. So weird.

[AAM2012]

Apr 28, 2024 8:22:58 GMT -5 Bad Dingo said:

Anyone watch? I'm just watching it now. They had a bunch of SNL clips featuring sketches about past presidents, candidates, and misc. politicians. Unless somehow I missed it, there were none of Kate McKinnon playing Hillary Clinton. So weird.

I think I saw one with her towards the end.

I watched and thought it was meh, Colin seemed super nervous but it also could have been that he was shaken up before due to Biden bringing up his grand father (mother? Can’t remember).

There were a few good ones but his timing seemed off.

Loved the end in which he brought it back on a serious note about the importance of protecting our democracy.

[ellipses84]

I’ve only seen some clips of it and they were funny. On one hand, it’s almost too easy too make jokes about the orange family, but on the other hand I cannot believe (hopefully inaccurate) polls are showing a tied race, so I'm here for every celebrity that supports Biden and helps that go viral.

Colin Jost comes from generations of NYC firefighters and his mom was the first female chief medical officer for the NYFD. She hurried to the scene on 9/11 and is lucky to have survived. Her story is pretty incredible.

[livinitup]

I’ve seen clips of Pres. Biden’s speech/roast and he slays. (I still
get flashbacks of the West Wing when they were writing for it & get sad that show and the era of fantasy good government is dead.)

At least part of Pres. Biden’s success was in actually having a good time at the dinner. Trump was too humorless and thin skinned to participate every single year.

[basilosaurus]

Apr 29, 2024 0:08:24 GMT -5 livinitup said:

I’ve seen clips of Pres. Biden’s speech/roast and he slays. (I still
get flashbacks of the West Wing when they were writing for it & get sad that show and the era of fantasy good government is dead.)

At least part of Pres. Biden’s success was in actually having a good time at the dinner. Trump was too humorless and thin skinned to participate every single year.

I thought he never went during his term. Trumplethinskin indeed