Actually, I was wrong to dismiss comic Larry Wilmore; he had his moments at the White House Correspondent Dinner, 2016. When those came, they were good. Did you see all the sourpuss faces, Wolf Blitzer and the females, especially? (Wilmore was easy on Donald Trump, for some reason.)
My favorite lines:
“It’s nice to match the names (in this room) to the faces in the Panama Papers.”
Apropos the president’s drone dropping, “Obama can’t be killing print journalism tonight, that industry has been dead for a while.”
“Speaking of drones how is Wolf Blitzer still on TV?”
“I used to watch CNN back when it was a news network.”
“Beyoncé is not anti-cop, at the most, she’s anti-pants.”
“MSNBC put Chris Hayes on probation because they thought he was related to Isaac Hayes.”
“MSNBC got rid of so many black people I thought Boko Haram was running it.”
“Lincoln Chafee is back to doing what he does best, manning the pottery booth at the craft fair.”
“In less than a year, Mr. president, you’ll be playing golf every day. Some things won’t be that different.”
“After eight years in the White House, Mr. president, we are really going to miss Michelle.”
UPDATE (5/1): No good jokes from Obama, who used to turn in good performances at the DC Sycophants’Dinner.
