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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichelle Wolf's raw, crass White House Correspondents Dinner jokes were shockingly good
From her opening line (Like a porn star says when shes about to have sex with a Trump, Lets get this over with) to her closing kicker (Flint still doesnt have clean water!), Michelle Wolfs performance Saturday night at the White House Correspondents Dinner was a raw triumph. Some of her jokes were solid, conventional ones, like Trump has a lot of ideas. He wants to give teachers guns, which I support. They can sell them for supplies. And some of them were arbitrary and mean in the manner of good Don Rickles material, such as What would I do without Megyn Kelly? Maybe be proud of women. A fair number of her jokes werent funny, purely on the level of joke-writing craft. And yes, she sprinkled her routine with obscenities here and there. But virtually all the jokes that CNN and Fox News are telling you afterward were X-rated or in poor taste or not funny those were magnificently funny, funny in a slash-and-burn way that was tremendously satisfying.
Its standard for the president of the United States to attend this dinner, but of course, our standard-breaking, humorless current president chose to decline. (In a pre-speech interview, Wolf said, I think its cowardly not to go. The only other person that didnt go was [Ronald] Reagan, when he was shot. And he called in.) Trump chose instead to give a speech at a rally in Michigan, where he delivered the true obscenity of Saturday night: a damaging attack on Montana senator Jon Tester for simply reporting the allegations against Dr. Ronny Jackson, Trumps failed pick to run the Veterans Administration. Compared to anything Wolf said, Trumps speech was far more offensive.
Which is not to say Wolfs material was not offensive it was, intentionally so. One member of Trumps team was on the dais with Wolf on Saturday press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Wolf began by telling her, I love you as Aunt Lydia on The Handmaids Tale. Then Wolf escalated her attack with an almost poetic insult: I think Sarahs very resourceful. Like, she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Maybe shes born with it, maybe its lies. Its probably lies. There were a lot of groans and moans and Oooohs and startled silences from this point on. Wolf also insulted Democrats and the media in one concise joke: I know theres a lot of people who want me to talk about Russia and Putin and collusion, but Im not gonna do that, because theres a lot of liberal media here and Ive never wanted to know what any of you look like when you orgasm. Except for you, Jake Tapper. Okay, one more: Comparing one white-haired white guy to another white-haired white guy, she said, Mike Pence is what happens when Anderson Cooper isnt gay.
The comedian was probably little-known to the thousands of journalists, celebrities, and political figures who were in the audience, and, pausing in the midst of telling many crude jokes, Wolf chided the people whod invited her for not doing their research on me. This was the most brash, irreverent Correspondents Dinner performance since Stephen Colberts 2006 masterpiece. But where Colberts focus was on politics, Wolfs was more broadly focused, on the whole range of awful behavioron the cultural atmospherethat Trump has unleashed.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/michelle-wolf-white-house-trump-sanders-jokes-115142714.html
rustydog
(9,186 posts)She rocked it at the White House Correspondent's Dinner!
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)manor321
(3,344 posts)Colbert's masterpiece was brilliant satire from a brilliant mind. Last night was a mostly unfunny rant.
alterfurz
(2,474 posts)...it was just some locker room talk." -- #WHCD tweet
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Take a bow!!!
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Tribalceltic
(1,000 posts)and very refreshing
kwassa
(23,340 posts)I still do.
Cha
(297,446 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Cha
(297,446 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Just sayin.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)I'm not buying their outrage.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Kali
(55,016 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)One of the best comedians I've ever seen.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,785 posts)murielm99
(30,753 posts)SunSeeker
(51,607 posts)The camera panned to him during that joke and he was busting a gut laughing.
"... Anderson Cooper without the gay."
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)About how if Anderson Cooper wasn't gay Mike Pence wouldn't be VP? Huh?
hoss53
(9 posts)She made a lot more good points than tRump,aka spanky, did in his Michigan rallie. Did the republicans pay those people to be there????? Can't believe there's that many stupid people in Michigan.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Trump was more offensive in Michigan than any of her jokes
And he is not kidding !
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)And the jokes on them and us. What a sad and pitiful press corps. They deserved even more than they got when it came to hearing some uncomfortable truths.
UTUSN
(70,720 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,628 posts)Not everyone is comfortable with that. Did I like all the jokes? No, but she stuck the landing on most of them. Overall I thought did great. She doesn't owe anyone a damn thing.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Yeah.... comedians are renowned for their professional demeanor. I often mistake comics for IBM workers.
NatBurner
(2,640 posts)and for the record, she roasted democrats too
she has a point