Evoking memories of his hilarious 2008 speech at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner, Barack Obama went from zinger to zinger at the White House correspondents’ dinner over the weekend. Highlights include a spectacular skewering of Donald Trump and a government-endorsed trailer for the 2012 election.
Obama’s speech at the correspondents’ dinner
Evoking memories of his hilarious 2008 speech at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner, Barack Obama went from zinger to zinger at the White House correspondents’ dinner over the weekend. Highlights include a spectacular skewering of Donald Trump and a government-endorsed trailer for the 2012 election.
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Look, while it was a fine effort and was actually much funnier than the Seth Myers rather lame routine that followed.
This annual event will always be judged (and generally found wanting) when compared to the immortal, and truly courageous performance of Stephen Colbert in 2006.
Ditto to what Paddy wrote. The bonus in this one was Trump copping it.
I’m not sure Paddy and Zut watched the same Seth clip is I did … he slayed them. It was his rips of the Donald that got the biggest laughs of the night.