White House Correspondents Gala tonight

Yeah!

Bravery doesn’t seem to be his strong suit. 

Michelle Wolf was great!  Here's the complete routine:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IYPnnsYJw

Flint, Michigan still doesn't have clean drinking water.

So much conservative snowflake whining today.  Go fig.

Even Sean Spicer poked his head up out of Obscurity to bitch.

they should have just told the stuffy conservatives that it was Rosanne Barr in black face making the jokes, then they'd be laughing. 

Was it truly a "gala"?  Could it have been a "box social"?

Wolf was spot on. Those people who got mocked deserve to be and need to get a thicker skin.

If  tree falls in the wood, how do we get Kellyanne under the tree?

Lol

I thought she was rude, over the top, insulting, and very inappropriate!!!

Then it dawned on me...    she literally took ALL of Trumps jokes that has been used against others, especially the press, and reused them against his own people...   great strategy, and it really pissed them off!  Absolutely Brilliant approach!!!!   

Glass houses anyone?   

Maybe it’s time they stop having the annual dinner where the impartial news media hob-nobs and jokes around with (BUT NOT TOO MUCH) the people they are covering. Or do that shit in private where we can’t see to help out with our paranoia. 

>>>>>>I thought she was rude, over the top, insulting, and very inappropriate!!

Because she called out Sanders for lying?

Wolf HATES Trump. Of course she was going to kick ass.

I thought that she was brilliant.

I've always wondered why Trump supporter's are worse looking than liberals? 

I thought she  sucked. The only thing i laughed at was the Bear Stearns joke

http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/30/white-house-correspondents-din...

She kicked ass.  'Twas ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhxcelleeeeeeeeeeent.

Trumpkins bitching about the concepts of rude and insensitive is F'ing priceless.

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From the top down - the entire current administration is larded with self-aggrandizing crooks, liars, scumbags, hypocrites assholes and idiots....

The worst of the worst is the so called Chief... The rest are pathetic and so are all who are responsible for putting these dip-shits into positions of power.

PLF, what did you hate about her so much? A thumbs down emoji doesn’t give the best details. 

I think that her closing comment was totally spot on. 

There’s a ton of news right now, a lot is going on, and we have all these 24-hour news networks, and we could be covering everything. Instead, we’re covering three topics. Every hour is Trump, Russia, Hillary, and a panel full of people that remind you why you don’t go home for Thanksgiving. Milk comes from nuts now all because of the gays.

You guys are obsessed with Trump. Did you used to date him? Because you pretend like you hate him, but I think you love him. I think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you. He couldn’t sell steaks or vodka or water or college or ties or Eric, but he has helped you. He’s helped you sell your papers and your books and your TV. You helped create this monster, and now you’re profiting off of him. If you’re going to profit off of Trump, you should at least give him some money, because he doesn’t have any.

I like her delivery, but that’s just a personal taste like thing. Definitely more crude than would be expected. She treated it like a roast. Conway and Sanders got the worst of it, but fuck ‘em. They both suck.

Who are the somebody-s, plf?

>>>>she Really is a Nobody 

What’s her VLZ handle? 

 PLF would be the first to cry that  Michelle’s comedy offended him  and wasn’t  in keeping with the kindness being fostered here. I mean if we’re talking lame.

i thought she was fantastic.  funny listening to 50 something, single white guys telling her to shut up. 

Michelle was hysterical!

>>April 30, 2018; Philadelphia, PA - NPR's Terry Gross spoke with comedian Michelle Wolf about her performance at the White House Correspondent's Dinner this weekend in an interview that will air Tuesday, May 1 on WHYY's Fresh Air.

Stations and broadcast times are available at NPR.org/stations; podcast will be available by 4:30pm EST on May 1. Excerpts will air on All Things Considered tonight and on the NPR Politics podcast special that drops this evening.

Audio clips are available upon request through NPR's Media Relations team at [email protected]. 

Excerpts of the interview are available below and can be cited with attribution.

On why people say that the WHCD is "a bad room.":

Wolf: ...the overarching thing that people kept telling me is that they're like "It's a bad room."

Gross: In what sense?

Wolf: In that it's just like, they were like, nothing ever sounds good in that room.

Gross: Because?

Wolf: A couple different factors. I mean, it's a large ballroom. The audience isn't miked so you the laughs aren't very audible in general. But it's also, it's formal, which people don't laugh as much when they're dressed up. There's round tables and people are eating or drinking, so by the virtue of a round table people are partially turned away from you. And it's televised and there are all these people that may or may not be able to show genuine reactions and so you're constantly thinking "I need to react in a way that will come off well on TV."

Gross: You mean, like not seem partisan?

Wolf: Right, yeah. That you might not be giving a genuine reaction to what's being said.

Gross: You're saying some people might be afraid to laugh because it will make them look partisan?

Wolf: Make them look partisan or make them look like they're laughing at someone they shouldn't be laughing at.

On Sarah Sanders being on camera while she was telling the jokes:

Wolf: Yeah, it is different. But you know, there's plenty where you could look back and the camera was on Obama when people were making pretty aggressive jokes about Obama and he was laughing. And I think having the ability to laugh at yourself is important. I also think that if you – another part of the dinner that wasn't televised is they were giving out awards and everyone was standing to congratulate the people who were getting awards and Sarah was sitting.

Gross: So you think she was kind of like sitting in protest? Because these are media awards and she didn't want to stand in praise of the media?

Wolf: Correct.

Gross: Was there something specifically said about CNN that she didn't stand?

Wolf: Yeah, CNN reporters got awards, I cannot remember the exact award they got, but they came up to accept them and she sat the whole time, while we all stood and shook their hands. I would say if this is about celebrating the media she wasn't there to celebrate the media.

When asked if she's surprised at the level of controversy over her performance:

Wolf: I wasn't expecting this level, but I'm also not disappointed there's this level. I knew what I was doing going in. I wanted to do something different. I didn't want to cater to the room. I wanted to cater to the outside audience, and not betray my brand of comedy. I actually, a friend of mine who helped me write, he gave me a note before I went on which I kept with me which was, "Be true to yourself. Never apologize. Burn it to the ground."

Gross: When you say you didn't want to cater to the room, you didn't want to betray who you are as a comic, what would it have meant to cater to the room and how would that have betrayed who you are as a comic?

Wolf: I think a lot of it and what I've seen in the past is they poke little fun, they kind of poke fun at deeper dives in news media. They'll go kind of table by table pointing at people and making fun of them, in a way that I think used to be fun because the dinner used to have the president there, it used to be we're all poking fun of each other, the president's going to poke fun at us, we're going to hit back. Now it seems like it's a much more serious environment and to kind of not go after the big issues and just have a little fun in the room seemed just not as exciting to me.

On advice Seth Meyers gave her about performing at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and the expectation that "women will be nice.":

Michelle Wolf: I mean, I'm honestly – I wouldn't change a single word that I said. I'm very happy with what I said, and I'm glad I stuck to my guns.

Gross: After one of your jokes about the women's march and the, I can't say the word, the p - - - - hats that women wore, and then you made a joke about female genitalia, you said, and I quote, "You should've done more research before you got me to do this." I got the impression you really meant that.

Wolf: Yeah, I mean, I think I don't know maybe I'm projecting this, but I think sometimes they look at a woman and they think "Oh, she'll be nice," and if you've seen any of my comedy you know that I don't – I'm not. I don't pull punches. I'm not afraid to talk about things. And I don't think they expected that from me. I think they still have preconceived notions of how women will present themselves and I don't fit in that box.

On being criticized for being a feminist comic making jokes about women's appearances:

Michelle Wolf: I think they didn't pay attention to what was said.

Gross: I'm wondering if you think it's maybe a little bit sexist to think that Sarah Sanders as a woman needs to be protected from a couple of jokes at a roast, because I haven't heard men be protected that way at roasts?

Wolf: Yeah, I mean, if there is two people that I actually made fun of their looks on Saturday it was Mitch McConnell and Chris Christie and no one is jumping to their defense. I made fun of Mitch McConnell's neck and I did a small jab at Chris Christie's weight and no one is jumping to their defense.

Gross: And every comic makes jokes about Trump's hair, about the length of his tie. I mean, I'm just talking about physical things here, I'm not talking about all the other jokes they make about President Trump, but his hair and his tie are the constant butt of jokes. So, again, is there anything else you'd like to say about the fact that that you're a feminist comic, you criticized a woman with a couple of jokes, like the punchlines were about her, and so many people feel the need to defend her in a way that I haven't heard men defended at roasts?

Wolf: I think one of the things about being a comic is getting to actually, as a woman, I have access to hit women in a way that men might not be able to hit them with jokes. I don't mean physically hit. But you know, because I'm a woman, I can say things about women because I know what it's like to be a woman, if that makes any sense.

Gross: So you felt like you had more liberty in saying what you said about Sarah Sanders and if a man had said it it might've been uglier?

Wolf: I think in general when I talk about women, like in my special when I talked about Hillary, I called Hillary a bitch, which you later find out is a compliment. But no, I don't think a man could've gotten away with saying that. It would've sounded misogynistic.

This White House is filled with and represented by a bunch of mean, hurtful and harmful pricks. The damage they do to the world is real, not some innerwebz BS. If she was able to use her pulpit to go off on them, in person, all the power to her. They deserve it.

Tears of White Nationalists are Delicious!!!!

Bwahafuckinha!!!

Frequently, the most truth-telling comedians are labeled obscene - Bruce, Carlin, Pryor, fill in the blank...

Colbert was very offended!!!

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/michelle-wolf-white-house-c...

‘Maybe you guys should get a sense of humor’

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWwbP1--Ej8

The Aunt Lidia joke was gold. 

I live in conservative land and haven't heard a single person complain about this comedy act. 

No one is actually offended. The TV stories are just getting you guys riled up. I guess it's good for their bottom line.

>>>>>I live in conservative land and haven't heard a single person complain about this comedy act. 

You must have missed Hillman and PLFs posts in this thread.

And the organizers of the correspondents dinner apologizing for her crude statement that Sanders' smokey eye is perfect.  How rude.  They should get Jeff Foxworthy next year.

>> You must have missed Hillman and PLFs posts in this thread.

They said she sucked. That's not being offended. 

^^Seth Meyers to the president of the WHCA:

“You hired her,” Meyers said. “That’s like a parent sending an email saying ‘yesterday’s birthday was meant to celebrate Kevin turning six years old. Unfortunately the stripper’s dance routine was not in the spirit of the party.'”

>>>>>>They said she sucked. That's not being offended.

You said you didn’t hear anyone complain, not you didn’t hear anyone get offended

Also, Noodler came off a little offended in his post.

I'm sorry i didn't find her funny. Had nothing to do with the people she was gigging or her language. I only laughed at 1 joke. 

Didn't mean to bug ya, but y'all can pretend she is the second coming of Lenny Bruce all you want

She's not the second coming of Lenny Bruce, alright?.

Trump is not the second coming of Abraham Lincoln either.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the not the second coming of anyone who ever told the truth.

>>>>>>Didn't mean to bug ya, but y'all can pretend she is the second coming of Lenny Bruce all you want

It doesn’t bother me at all.  Just pointing out to Ender people had complained about it in this thread.

Also at no point have I said anything good about her act.  But I know how Republicans and facts are like oil and water.

I didn't complain either

I’d say saying something sucked counts as a complaint but I guess it’s semantics.  It’s not a compliment, that’s for sure.  Actually it’s the opposite.

Not always. If you expect something to suck, and it does, and you point that out - is that really complaining?

Just nitpicking along here.

I wasn't offended at all,  just using contrast to make a point.  (Timmy did grab my first sentence, but my point was the following sentence)

Essentially, while some of those jokes shes used in past routines, many of her jokes aimed at White house staffers were Trump jokes thrown right back at them, which is brilliant.  She took a Rush Limbaugh joke used against Chelsea Clinton, several jokes Trump used against reporters, etc, and just changed the name of the person....  and shoved it right back at them!  I caught the hipocrisy, surprised more folks in the media didn't do a straight up comparison....

Call truth to power, and in this case, throw their own BS right back at them, loved it!   

(wish folks like George Carlin and Frank Zappa were still around)

"We're Primus, and we suck"

Les Claypool.

I did not think she was particularly funny.

I  wasn't offended

‘Respect The Artistry’

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/dave-chappelle-says-michelle-wolf-na...100000002321389

Dave Chappelle says Michelle Wolf ‘nailed it’ at White House Correspondents Dinner

Nation Apr 30, 2018 9:41 PM EDT

Forty-eight hours out from Michelle Wolf’s biting comedy routine at the White House Correspondents Dinner, there’s been plenty of backlash among some journalists and political figures in Washington, D.C.

Several people — including journalists Mike Allen of Axios and Maggie Haberman of the New York Times — criticized Wolf on Twitter, saying some of her jokes had gone too far, and that she had personally and inappropriately insulted White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway, senior counselor to the president. Matt Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union and organizer of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, said on Twitter that he and his wife, Mercedes, a Trump Administration official, walked out of the event. Margaret Talev, the head of the White House Correspondents Association, said Wolf’s comments undercut the spirit of the evening.

READ MORE: Comedian Michelle Wolf draws laughs, gasps at correspondents’ dinner

But a number of comedians — including Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and Kathy Griffin — have come to Wolf’s defense, saying she is a comedian and did what she was paid to do. In an interview with the PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown in San Francisco, comedian Dave Chappelle also backed Wolf, saying he “really respected” what he saw, and that there was both levity and truth in her routine.

“I don’t know who those people think they are that she can’t say that to them, cause they offend people all the time. And I think that for many people … it’s cathartic to watch that woman speak truth to power like that,” Chappelle said.

“I know how hard it is to do what she did … I think she nailed it,” Chappelle said. “Whether I agree with it or not, I gotta respect the artistry.”

Watch Chappelle’s full remarks in the player above. His full interview with Jeffrey Brown will air later this spring.