White House Correspondents' Association Dinner

The White House Correspondents Dinner has been a lightning rod for controversy ever since Stephen Colbert mocked the Bush Administration back in 2006. Back then, the press debated about whether he was too mean to the sitting President while forgetting that the purpose of comedy ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

President Obama delivered a relatively edgy set at Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner, which prompted a predictably gigantic fleet of conservative wahhhmbulances to spring into action. One of the jokes included the President wondering "What did we do to piss ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

It's the most wonderful time of the year for a White House reporter, when the rich, powerful, and celebrated express their deep appreciation for the work we do. Who knew Jessica Simpson was a White House briefing junkie? The 2014 White House Correspondents' Dinner (aka ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Community star Joel McHale performed his duties to a tee at Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner, making sure not to be funnier than his opening act, President Barack Obama. The President was in rare form, delivering a blistering set that took hard shots at ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

If you wanted to find definitive proof that the US news media is the most supine, conformist gaggle of brown nosers in the western world, one yearly event removes all the guess work. DC's annual White House Correspondents' Dinner is the place where journalists, celebrities and ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 24, 2016

The yearly White House Correspondents' Association Dinner tomorrow evening represents all that is wrong with the corporate news media. It is event where members of the news media get to mingle in a big swanky hotel with the people they are supposed to be holding to account, and ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016