White House Correspondents’ Dinner axes comedy slot after Trump admin pressure
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Evil can't stand to be laughed at.
It’s quite possibly the reason he ran in the first place lol
He had run before that roast. But yeah i think it made him hate stand up, and reinforced his drive.
Yeah, he ran as part of Perot’s reform party lol
So fragile, they need to be treated very gently
Meanwhile, the actual devil (Lucifer) couldn't give to shits about being mocked lol.
If he were real of course.
Once again demonstrating their collective cowardice…
Obeying in advance. Can’t risk upsetting Don Mangolini. The Mafia Bully Admin wins again.
🙄 🙄
They should have canceled the entire "White House Correspondents' Dinner" and simply held a completely new event at the exact same time at the same venue with a different name, and kept the jokes at the president's expense.
It's not White House's Correspondents' Dinner. It's White House Correspondents' Dinner.
The Correspondents organize it. It's hosted in a Hilton hotel, not at the White house. The White House doesn't control it in any way. This is simply the press rolling over to appease the fascists because they are scared of losing access.
They should hold it at the Four Seasons.
This vibe, for lack of a better word, is more important than some may think. Having an official role for poking fun at the government once a year reinforces Democracy and 1A. This is an act that signals to everyone just how ok it is to point out flaws and say what you like about the federal government and the people in it, including the president. To remove the comedy element states the opposite.
I don't know if there's a word or phrase for this but it is funny how you're saying the dinner is important to show that in democracy leadership can take it on the chin. But in this case, this administration is wrecking democracy and can't handle the correspondence dinner. It's cool to see how that works in real time
There is no way this happens. Left can't muster anything more then a mild protest
Exactly as intended
An official demonstration of Freedom of Press?
It’s more than that. Every year the president sits down in public to be roasted. Maybe it’s lighter and more formal than Reddit, but it’s still a roast. Sitting in a chair for it at an event is much more pointed than passing headlines or essays.
he never got over obama roasting him. in anycase, conservatives never could understand how comedy works, because all they do is know how to punch down, and it often comes from bigotry and hateful sources.
That's completely accurate.
He loves to dish out insults but can't handle it being done to him even in jest. What a strong man.
I blame Obama 100% for Trump running. He just couldn’t fucking help himself.
Jon Stewart, et al, should host a competing event.
I would def watch.
PLEASE.
Bunch of wussies can’t laugh at themselves. The collective narcissism is astounding
Because somewhere in their deep recesses, they know just exactly who/what they really are...
So, when it's pointed out to them, it's not funny, it's not making fun.
It's truth. It's a reminder.
Comedy has been banned everyone, time to wrap it up.
Didn't musk make some inane comment about comedy being illegal cause he couldn't say slurs or transphobic shit at some point?
I mean not banned, but the standards have to be improved.
Relevant video.
Surely this will not go over well with President Elon "Free Speech Absolutist" Musk, right? RIGHT???
Elon Musk (after buying Twitter): "Comedy is now legal."
Elon Musk: "[the] Left found nothing funny, wanted to make comedy illegal."
Trump tried to get DOJ to go after Saturday Night Live for mocking him
Coward press. Have the comedy but not the president.
I think that's what they did during his first term, right? I remember him skipping the event altogether.
Thin-skinned bitches
Ah, who are the snowflakes again?? Got to suppress criticism, especially if it is funny.
Much like reality, comedy has a well-known liberal bias.
how about we just axe the white house correspondent entirely since they a) won't stand up for their colleagues and b) won't stand up to this administration or else they lose access.
the primary reason I stopped watching cable news since the election is the press being less than limp, weak, and feckless when it comes to anything dealing with republicans but somehow find their spines when a democrat is involved.
Snowflakes.
Wittle baby doesn't want the meany-weany comedian to hurt is fee-fees while he destroys the country.
Trump doesn't even know what joy is, he can only laugh at cruelty.
If I didn't know better I'd say the White House was filled with a bunch of thin skinned cry babies. /s
Weird Snowflakes
I'm pretty sure that's how this all started... https://youtu.be/k8TwRmX6zs4
Pretty sure it has t stopped, neither.
Amber Ruffin is a fucking national treasure.
The American Have I Got News For You is actually awesome IMO.
Totally agree. Needs more viewers though.
Wut happun? I thought elon made comedy legal again. 🤭
The press is feeble. Fucking cowards.
The amazing thing to me is that they can continuously do shit like this, and yet there will always be "normies" (and even some in the comedy industry themselves) whining about how the left is ruining comedy blah blah...
It's just insane the automatic benefit of the doubt that the right gets on every fucking issue.
It's always projection with these assholes. fElon whined about "free speech" and now wants the government to come down on people that insult him or his shitty cars. fElon and lots of other RW assholes whined that comedy wasn't legal, was getting people "cancelled" and now...they are literally cancelling comedy.
So fucking pathetic. But hey, hard to expect corporate media to stand up for the people. You basically have the fascist media and the "both sides" media.
It's very concerning that the White House Correspondent's Dinner would succumb to White House pressure. Now we see how theyll respond when HitlerPig demands they suppress his scandals.
These imperial stenographers have always supported fascism.
Bring Obama to just roast his ass for an hour instead. Not much else could get under his skin like that, unless you also get some Trump women to fawn over him the whole time.
Who sees what is happening in the white house and wants to crack jokes?
For the next four years, the Correspondent's Dinner should be a wake, and not an Irish one.
Fascists can't be argued with. They love when you get angry and yell at them. But they absolutely cannot stand to get laughed at. Go look up some quotes from Mel Brooks about why he thought it was important for the Hitler references in The Producers.
We should be doing a monthly nationally televised event where Trump, Musk, and the rest are ridiculed.
Certainly. I agree completely.
The correspondent's dinner isn't the proper venue for that.
The correspondent's dinner is, in part, a comedy roast of the president and his administration. The guests are overtly praising and honoring the roasted. They are laughing with the guest of honor, not at him.
We should absolutely ridicule Trump, Musk, and the rest, mercilessly. But none of them deserve the honor of a roast.
What about the other kind of Irish wake
Snowflakes
Well, some people deserve to be bullied. I think politicians in general should be bullied to shit.
Have you ever seen Donald Trump make a genuine joyful eye twinkling smile?
Too bad. Trevor Noah's gig was unforgettable.
I think the best one ever was Stephen Colbert. Followed by Seth Meyers, I think. But Colbert's was just so...perfect. You could tell it was great because the Beltway class was harumphing about it in the aftermath.
Great April fools guys!
Guys?
So this isn't the Onion.
amber ruffin is incredible and this is going to make a great bit for her
This is pathetic. Any respect I had for this group has evaporated.
Toe Rogaine will quit comedy and start calling it woke because of this
No jokes allowed other than the ones sitting in the oval office.
That's because nothing is funny anymore
Couldn't have big scary Michelle Wolf lyrically castrate him again? 😢
Master - Suppress Free Thinking
https://youtu.be/idgoaES-o2E
The no-fun administration. Because anyone having fun might end up laughing at donvict and pals.
nothing can top that circus.
Jeez even Fox's Guttfield wouldn't do it... Tough times.