Roy actually lost his voice, but didn’t back out. The raspy tone actually gives many of his set-ups a little more gravitas, making for a fascinating and sharp Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner address (think of it as the JV squad to the White House Correspondents Dinner).
Watch Roy’s whole address here.
The RTCA Dinner, which is the Congressional equivalent of the much more well known White House Correspondents Dinner, just took place this week.
The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj was on hand to host and did a pretty swell job. Dropping the persona he has while on The Daily Show, Hasan balanced out a snappy barrage of jokes between Congress, media, and this year’s Presidential race with a very good chunk of sincerity.
If there’s anyone that looking to do a new satirical news show, it’s pretty clear to us that he could host his own show.
Please watch his entire monologue here.
As it was President Barack Obama’s last White House Correspondents’ Dinner, he made sure that people were going to remember, among several things, that he was the funniest Commander-in-Chief in recent memory.
Larry Wilmore, at the start of his set, mentioned the notable task at hand of following President Obama (which has been the case for pretty much every WHCD during Obama’s administration by the way), and worked his way up to a solid finish (that included dropping the N-word, which has to be a C-SPAN first).
However, the current field of presidential hopefuls, when it comes to slinging roast jokes at the WHCD, will probably have a much harder time than Larry trying to follow Obama.
Also, Larry Wilmore is hosting, which should make for one hell of a night.
President Barack Obama might be the funniest president that has ever taken the podium at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. This particularly insane election year should also make this an extra special WHCD and certainly provides plenty of material for President Obama and Wilmore (who is more than ready for this with his time at The Daily Show and his own The Nightly Show).
That being said, his final appearance/address/set/roast is tonight that will be broadcast live on C-SPAN. According to this handy guide from Washington Post, coverage starts at 3PM PST/6PM EST with a dinner at 4:30PM PST/7:30PM EST, the the POTUS and Wilmore will start somewhere between 6:45PM-7:15PM PST/9:45PM-10:15PM EST.
For those of you who don’t want to find what channel C-SPAN is on, you can livestream the whole thing at C-SPAN.org, MSNBC.com, and washingtonpost.com. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC will also be providing coverage.
We’re sure they’ll note the absence of presidential candidate Donald Trump plenty.
Even though it’s “The JV squad” to The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Aasif Mandvi still makes it quite the night.
You probably weren’t watching C-Span this week, which means you missed Aasif Mandvi at The Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association Dinner. That means you missed plenty of great digs at Congress and C-Span and Islamophobia and more.
Returning after hosting in 1995, Conan O’Brien once again will take the podium to host the prestigious WHCA Dinner cracking jokes that hopefully you don’t have to Google.
It’ll be one of the few times you actually tune into C-SPAN during the year, but there will be a live broadcast on C-SPAN at 6:30PM PST. You might now want to miss it