Obama Will Weaponize Comedy at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

[DonViejo]

This president is the most effective of them all at using humor to destroy his enemies. Expect him to do it again on Saturday.

Dean Obeidallah

This Saturday night, President Obama will kill! Kill with comedy, that is, at this year’s annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Simply put: Obama is the greatest president ever in terms of using comedy. I can already hear the (faux) outrage to my comment from the right, but objectively speaking, Obama has truly redefined the way presidents use comedy.

For starters, Obama has handled the WHCD far differently than past presidents. Typically, they would offer self-deprecating jokes, such as Ronald Reagan mocking his own age and Bill Clinton poking fun at himself for being “chunky.”

And George W. Bush, a man who should be inducted to the Comedy Hall of Fame for all the material he gave comedians, even stood side by side with a Bush impersonator at the 2006 WHCD where Bush mocked his struggles to speak English and for being intellectually challenged.

Obama has changed that. True, at the WHCDs in 2009 and 2010 he gave us the traditional fare of self-deprecating jokes and playfully mocking others, such as this quip: “In the next hundred days, I will learn to go off the prompter and Joe Biden will learn to stay on the prompter.”

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[monmouth3]

1. Just read on the Hollywood Reporter that Robert DeNiro will be only one of a few actual A-list

stars at this dinner. Hollywood will keep a low profile, they are no longer interested in the craziness of the crowds, etc.

[djean111]

2. Be interesting to see what Joel McHale says.

The rest of it is just insider sniggering and crapola. I don't watch the rest of it.
That way I never have to listen to another fucking drone joke.

[a kennedy]

3. C-Spin will cover it live.....

http://whca.net/dinner.htm page down to see the POTUS's speech from last year.....a classic. Love him.

[intaglio]

4. Then there was Dubya's inspired use of Colbert at the Correspondents Dinner

Which had the world laughing uproariously and the room being embarrassed at the epic takedown.

[a kennedy]

5. Just watched the whole POTUS speech from last year.....

He is sooooooooo funny, and just makes me so proud of him.

[Cha]

9. It was funny, kennedy!

[sofa king]

6. Weaponized joke? I seent it.

[AlinPA]

7. It would be great to have him mock all the slime "reporters" that will be present at that dinner.

[Cha]

8. Ask jon karl if he has Obamacare to take care of his sore back from all

the heavy gopropaganda lifting.