It’s Obama’s final turn as comedian-in-chief,joined by comedian Larry Wilmore
Video: Obama’s best zingers from past 7 years 4.49am BSTAnd with that, the final White House Correspondents’ Dinner of the Obama administration came to an conclude with, and if not raucous cheers,not precisely the hostile reception past comedians possess received.
You can’t say that Larry Wilmore killed: his humor – as it normally is – was a bit more of the wait-did-he-really-say-that variety, which is definitely not in keeping with the typical WHCD crowd ... which tends to think that he perhaps ought not to possess said it. And, and Wilmore’s jibes at CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Don Lemon,MSNBC’s morning indicate juggernaut Morning Joe and the death of print journalism (all topics well-covered at the event in past years, but normally by the president) were pretty unpopular with the likely inebriated crowd, or earning him a couple of loud boos from folks who probably ought to possess known better. 4.40am BSTWilmore ends by noting that,in his lifetime, we’ve gone from a country that couldn’t accept a black quarterback on a footbalk team to one that elected a black president. “So Mr President, or Im going to keep it 100. Yo,Barry, you did it my n*****.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com