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tv review Apr. 30, 2023

Long Live the White House Correspondents’ DinnerHost Roy Wood Jr. and President Biden made a case for why this goofy event is important.

By Jen Chaney
politics Apr. 30, 2023

Roy Wood Jr.’s Best Jokes at the 2023 White House Correspondents’ DinnerHe nailed it.

By Hershal Pandya
tv review May 1, 2022

The 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner Was a Respectable-Enough RebootIt wasn’t Twin Peaks: The Return, but it also wasn’t, like, Heroes Reborn either.

By Jen Chaney
department of linguistics May 7, 2016

Understanding the Wilmore ‘Nigga’ ConversationIt challenged a lot of strongly held notions about respectability.

By Rembert Browne
whcd Apr. 27, 2015

Celebs Can’t Stop Complimenting Obama at WHCDThe general consensus: Barack crushed it.

By Jen Chaney
white house correspondents’ dinner 2014 May 4, 2014

MSNBC Throws Correspondents’ Dinner Blowout on Eve of Proposed Comcast Merger“These are all staffers that go out for five-dollar happy hours; they don’t get invited to stuff like this.”

By Katie Van Syckle
white house correspondents’ dinner 2014 May 3, 2014

Scott Foley Had Never Been to D.C. BeforeThe Scandal star finally made the trip for the WHCD.

By Katie Van Syckle
white house correspondents’ dinner 2014 May 3, 2014

Veep’s Timothy Simons Is Hunting for Washington’s Biggest Nerd “They’re all here.”

By Katie Van Syckle
white house correspondents’ dinner 2014 May 3, 2014

David Brooks Doesn’t Mind Skipping the White House Correspondents’ DinnerThe Times man will be drinking elsewhere in D.C.

By Katie Van Syckle
white house correspondents’ dinner 2014 May 3, 2014

Mark Leibovich: WHCD Is Looking More B-ListThe This Town author still hopes that D.C. will stop celebrating itself.

By Katie Van Syckle
politics is a joke Apr. 29, 2012

We Try to Best Jokes From the WHCDSome were actually kind of funny!

By Andre Tartar and Caroline Bankoff