Nerd Prom (aka The White House Correspondence Dinner) Review; "The Night Where Washington DC celebrates itself"
"Somebody's Got to do it." I must state upfront that I cannot stand using that term "Nerd Prom" as the way to describe the event tonight that is officially called the White House Correspondence Dinner. But I fell into it any way. I also hate using the term 'nerd' today because it is not real (such a back slapping compliment to refer to yourself as one ('a nerd') today) but after the toast to him, the President of our United States of America got up to speak.
He makes no bones about it being in his '4th quarter' of his terms to which his wife Michelle gives that comment a big cheer. I love his jokes about his bucket list and how after the mid term election last year, he just uses the term that sounds like it. Especially with regard to his executive action with Immigration. Bucket. New climate regulations? Bucket.
He says that the Castro brothers are at the event but then again, it was the ones from Texas of course. I will say that he is correct in that Michele has not aged a day. She is very pretty. And, she is way cool! Obama though is also a good looking man even though he is poking fun about his age during this part of his speech.
He really gets at himself too. Saying that people think he is arrogant and then exclaiming how dumb people are is just great but the best one so far is that jab at (George) Bush Jr. and especially at Dick Cheney. I guess (Dick) Cheney stated lately that Obama is the worst POTUS in his lifetime (as if anyone listens to Dick Cheney and is most likely why i did not know about him making that claim; I do NOT listen to what Dick Cheney has to say about anything) and Obama says that Cheney was the worst POTUS in his lifetime. That was great to say out loud today. "What a coincidence."
Good jab also at Mike Huckabee and at the 47 congress people that wrote to the Ayatollahs just before his legacy joke when describing Michelle Bachmann's comments about Obama bringing the end of our days in that biblical sense. And no, (Abe) Lincoln nor (George) Washington did not do that (bring the end of days) when they were at the helm.
I also love the joke about the fool proof way to keep people off his lawn(s). A picture of John McCain with a broom was shown before a picture of Joe Biden about to swat down a DJI Phantom Drone flying at him with a Go Pro Camera attached to it.
Great words are being said about our Vice President while making a comment about the gay issues in Indiana. Good one.
Cecily Strong is also very pretty. Anyway you look at it, she is a very pretty woman. I never saw the show Blackish and I missed the joke about about SNL's Weekend Update show and with CNN.
And, what would be a White Correspondence Dinner without an Obama "is not from America joke?"
Yes, Ted Cruz does believe that our sun revolves around him and it is very odd when a person that has his picture above the word hope, calls this POTUS self centered which Cruz has done. The Rick Santorum joke about gays and lesbians not being a problem when he (Santorum) stated that he would not show up at any friends same sex marriages, is brilliant. "Don't sweat that one Rick".
It happens to be great to see the Donald (Trump) laugh at himself. That jab to Donald Trump by the POTUS was not even that bad. The Koch Brothers get their mention for donating almost one billion dollars for the next GOP candidate. Compared to say how Obama raised a lot of money but then again, the Kochs donating money to whomever will never have the name Hussain in it. The Hillary Instagram pictures are great and oh jeez, the Martin O'Malley joke about him not being recognized at his own campaign event is rough. I like Martin O'Malley. He spoke well at that last Democratic Convention and he seems like he is a nice guy. He has some good ideals too while doing great things for the state of Maryland. Notwithstanding what is happening today in Baltimore, but then again, Baltimore is Baltimore. We have all seen The Wire TV show and series when it was shown on HBO.
Uh Oh. Bernie Saunders is up next. Is he a pot smoking guy? I doubt it but Obama goes there saying we could get a third Obama term with a pot smoking socialist if (Bernie) Saunders gets nominated for POTUS.
Luther, Obama's anger translator is introduced now. This is priceless stuff. Obama is talking in his normal and every day speaking voice (are both (normal and everyday & speaking and voice?) of what i just redundant?) and then Luther translates what Obama says in great slang while yelling at the top of his lungs and while roaming around the podium. This is great. That joke about the donor wasting six million dollars giving it to Ted Cruz is a great one. And, Luther did not even have to scream to make that point. The California drought jokes are great about it looking like a Mad Max set today. Obama then getting angry on his own when talking about the environment is amazing as he gets interrupted by Luther for yelling about it. Luther throws up his arms so to speak as he leaves the stage saying that Obama needs counseling and not a translator. That was priceless comedy. Pardon my ignorance BTW but am I supposed to know Luther? I don't so therefore, I feel inadequate if he made some mark doing this shtick before tonight.
Obama is now getting serious talking about the people that have died at the hands of terrorists. And, about our people still in captivity after being kidnapped by terrorist groups. I hope we can bring them home and it just hit me that he is mentioning this and toasting them because they are journalists. Some people taken by these terrorists are indeed part of the media which is scary now that I think about it. Some are also humanitarian aids which is why I lost track of that fact but his seriousness at the end was so perfect. These people are part of the media and they do need to be mentioned on a night like this one. Obama was great tonight. Very edgy. Very risque. Very harsh. Very Good. I loved it.
And, as someone from NPR (I think they were from NPR) says, this is event is a long-time ritual — American presidents going before the Washington journalists who cover them to recognize some of the best work of the prior year from the assembled crowd. Here is the recap of about eight or so Obama jokes that stood out from tonight's White House Correspondents Dinner according to again, whom I think works at NPR:
The "Bucket" List Obama uses now as he asked, " 'Do you have a bucket list?' I say, well I have something that rhymes with bucket." Immigration executive action? "Bucket!" he deadpanned. Stricter climate rules. "Bucket!"
Those Grey Hairs: "I look so old John Boehner's already invited Netanyahu to speak at my funeral." Meanwhile, First Lady Michelle Obama looks great, he said. "I ask her her secret. She says, [Obama employing a nasally voice] 'Fresh fruits and vegetables.' It's aggravating." He also lamented that he has so much to do, like negotiate with Iran, "all while finding time to pray five times a day."
President Barack Obama bringing out actor Keegan-Michael Key from Key & Peele to play Luther, Obama's "Anger Translator" during the White House Correspondents dinner.
"Arrogant And Aloof" and how "people say I'm arrogant and aloof," the president said. "Some people are so dumb."
The end of Times when "Michele Bachmann predicted I would bring about the Biblical end of days. Now that's big. ... Lincoln, Washington — they didn't do that."
Hillary Clinton and how the economy's gotten so bad for some people, Obama said, "I had a friend, just a few weeks ago, she was making millions of dollars a year, and now she's living out of a van in Iowa."
The 2016 GOP Field with "the Koch brothers that think they need to spend a billion dollars to get folks to like one of these people," Obama said of the potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates. "I raised a lot ... but my middle name is Hussein."
Reach Out And Touch A Veep when he was talking about how close he and Vice President Biden have gotten, especially in stressful times, Obama joked that he loves Biden's back massages. "Those Joe Biden shoulder massages are like magic. You should try one." [Pause.] "Oh, you have?" He added, "We've gotten so close, in some places in Indiana, they won't serve us pizza anymore."
A Third Obama Term (Sorta) with regard to if a Bernie Saunders got elected and talking about how much he liked Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who could run for the Democratic nomination for president: "Apparently people really want to see a pot-smoking socialist in the White House. We could get a third Obama term after all."
Anyway, the lovely Cecily Strong steps up to the podium making no bones about "how great it feels to have a woman follow Obama."
Let's see where shoe goes tonight. She considers herself like a lot of people when that is wrong but still her mashable joke about her looking like everyone in Hillary's start up campaign video is funny I guess. But I got news for you Cecily Strong, you are way hot and you have always been considered to be way hot dating back to when I first noticed her/you at SNL but then again, what is she going to say about herself? I assume her being clever makes or made her more hot but anyway, I will get my head out of the gutter here now (BTW, remember when her and the other hotty (Kate McKinnon) from SNL were on Morning Joe together last year before they started that season that week?. That was amazing for the likes of me to see.)
Wait a second? Is Tina Fey gay? Cecily just said that "she is the first straight female that hosted this event."
I am glad she mentioned my man Joel McHale who did the hosting last year. I love everything Joel does even though Community went from being a show on Thursday nights at NBC in the last year, over to Yahoo TV.
Nice jabs at CSPAN and there are a few of them.
The Washington Hilton is getting crushed tonight because of how many things that happened in it, are corrupt.
Cecily now gets on the Secret Service which she should do but anyway, she states that they are "the only law enforcement agency that actually gets in trouble if a black guy gets shot."
Cecily now gets on Vice President Joe Biden too in the same way the POTUS did, with a massage joke. "I took Amtrak here. It was way more luxurious than I thought. Did you know they have massage seats on there? All you have to do is sit in front of Joe Biden. Those hands don’t get tired."
She then says that the Obama family is just like us! She also got on how President Obama is showing his age. "Your hair is so white now, it can talk back to the police."
The jokes about CNN and MSNBC are great. She talks about the many Lock Up shows on all weekend (Lock Up Bloopers, etc.) at MSNBC. Which i agree there are so many variations of it on all weekend these days. I think I watched a few of them way early and before the Steve Kornacki show this AM.
She also talks about how when there is a huge news story happening, that we can go to CNN to see Chef Anthony Bourdain "eat a cricket."
Cecily then explains to us how USA Today is around unless of course "it is Saturday or Sunday."
And, oof. The Amanda Knox joke or point she makes about that incident is a rough one. I did not know about DNA being on any knife and honestly, I thought she knocked the kid off a bluff or a hill near the ocean. Or, am I speaking about those deaths that went down on spring break in Aruba two times? Either way though, I also think Amanda Knox is hot which says it all about me.
The ISIS joke went over my head. Sorry but I don't get it or I missed it. I must be an idiot, however, the follow up to it about Brian Williams is a good one. She can't say anything about Brian because you know, "she works for NBC."
So did (went over my head) the Blackish and Sea World joke unless it has something to do with that documentary film, 'Blackfish.'
Cecily does get on the First Lady Michelle Obama for her eating lots of veggies (The POTUS did too BTW) saying that "it is a dream to sit next to you but it is a nightmare to eat next to you." I guess Cecily is a meat eater. Oh well. So, she is not perfect. She eats dead animals.
I am surprised she knows about Aaron Schock. Cool. Great Instagram photos of those two travelling together while being on vacation. Lots of Aaron Schock jokes tonight. Probably too many considering it is Aaron Schock. Plus, nothing about him taking people to that Bears football game on that plane. or, him taking the kids to that Katy Perry concert somewhere out of state too.
Great jab at Obama for him not going to France for that rally back in January and like Obama did tonight, Cecily (POTUS did too) gets on Jim Inhofe for him bringing in a snow ball to prove a point about global warming (or lack there of). She really gets on Tom Cotton for when he sent that note to the Ayatollah that was also signed by 47 other congress people.
Cecily's lead in to talk about women comes after a joke about Israel giving a great donation to he Hillary campaign, "It feels so weird to be up here. Since I’m only a comedian, I’m not going to try and tell you how to do politics. That would be like you guys telling me what to do with my body. I mean, can you even imagine? Crazy."
I never heard of Hobby Lobby BTW, until that issue broke although I did see a store in Florida when I was down there since that story broke last year.
And, overall about her (Cecily Strong) tonight, Cecily's excitement about Hillary Clinton's presidential bid came out many times during her set, "I’m excited about Hillary running, though I’m not sure she’s excited about having to run. I imagine she feels the same way Meryl Streep feels when she’s asked to audition for something."
Anyway, good night all around. Obama was great. Cecily was great. And, I am proud of both of them for only saying one blurb mentioning the back slapping compliment knows as a 'nerd."
A lot of amazing points were made about the USA today in that funny sorta way!
He says that the Castro brothers are at the event but then again, it was the ones from Texas of course. I will say that he is correct in that Michele has not aged a day. She is very pretty. And, she is way cool! Obama though is also a good looking man even though he is poking fun about his age during this part of his speech.
He really gets at himself too. Saying that people think he is arrogant and then exclaiming how dumb people are is just great but the best one so far is that jab at (George) Bush Jr. and especially at Dick Cheney. I guess (Dick) Cheney stated lately that Obama is the worst POTUS in his lifetime (as if anyone listens to Dick Cheney and is most likely why i did not know about him making that claim; I do NOT listen to what Dick Cheney has to say about anything) and Obama says that Cheney was the worst POTUS in his lifetime. That was great to say out loud today. "What a coincidence."
Good jab also at Mike Huckabee and at the 47 congress people that wrote to the Ayatollahs just before his legacy joke when describing Michelle Bachmann's comments about Obama bringing the end of our days in that biblical sense. And no, (Abe) Lincoln nor (George) Washington did not do that (bring the end of days) when they were at the helm.
I also love the joke about the fool proof way to keep people off his lawn(s). A picture of John McCain with a broom was shown before a picture of Joe Biden about to swat down a DJI Phantom Drone flying at him with a Go Pro Camera attached to it.
Great words are being said about our Vice President while making a comment about the gay issues in Indiana. Good one.
Cecily Strong is also very pretty. Anyway you look at it, she is a very pretty woman. I never saw the show Blackish and I missed the joke about about SNL's Weekend Update show and with CNN.
And, what would be a White Correspondence Dinner without an Obama "is not from America joke?"
Yes, Ted Cruz does believe that our sun revolves around him and it is very odd when a person that has his picture above the word hope, calls this POTUS self centered which Cruz has done. The Rick Santorum joke about gays and lesbians not being a problem when he (Santorum) stated that he would not show up at any friends same sex marriages, is brilliant. "Don't sweat that one Rick".
It happens to be great to see the Donald (Trump) laugh at himself. That jab to Donald Trump by the POTUS was not even that bad. The Koch Brothers get their mention for donating almost one billion dollars for the next GOP candidate. Compared to say how Obama raised a lot of money but then again, the Kochs donating money to whomever will never have the name Hussain in it. The Hillary Instagram pictures are great and oh jeez, the Martin O'Malley joke about him not being recognized at his own campaign event is rough. I like Martin O'Malley. He spoke well at that last Democratic Convention and he seems like he is a nice guy. He has some good ideals too while doing great things for the state of Maryland. Notwithstanding what is happening today in Baltimore, but then again, Baltimore is Baltimore. We have all seen The Wire TV show and series when it was shown on HBO.
Uh Oh. Bernie Saunders is up next. Is he a pot smoking guy? I doubt it but Obama goes there saying we could get a third Obama term with a pot smoking socialist if (Bernie) Saunders gets nominated for POTUS.
Luther, Obama's anger translator is introduced now. This is priceless stuff. Obama is talking in his normal and every day speaking voice (are both (normal and everyday & speaking and voice?) of what i just redundant?) and then Luther translates what Obama says in great slang while yelling at the top of his lungs and while roaming around the podium. This is great. That joke about the donor wasting six million dollars giving it to Ted Cruz is a great one. And, Luther did not even have to scream to make that point. The California drought jokes are great about it looking like a Mad Max set today. Obama then getting angry on his own when talking about the environment is amazing as he gets interrupted by Luther for yelling about it. Luther throws up his arms so to speak as he leaves the stage saying that Obama needs counseling and not a translator. That was priceless comedy. Pardon my ignorance BTW but am I supposed to know Luther? I don't so therefore, I feel inadequate if he made some mark doing this shtick before tonight.
Obama is now getting serious talking about the people that have died at the hands of terrorists. And, about our people still in captivity after being kidnapped by terrorist groups. I hope we can bring them home and it just hit me that he is mentioning this and toasting them because they are journalists. Some people taken by these terrorists are indeed part of the media which is scary now that I think about it. Some are also humanitarian aids which is why I lost track of that fact but his seriousness at the end was so perfect. These people are part of the media and they do need to be mentioned on a night like this one. Obama was great tonight. Very edgy. Very risque. Very harsh. Very Good. I loved it.
And, as someone from NPR (I think they were from NPR) says, this is event is a long-time ritual — American presidents going before the Washington journalists who cover them to recognize some of the best work of the prior year from the assembled crowd. Here is the recap of about eight or so Obama jokes that stood out from tonight's White House Correspondents Dinner according to again, whom I think works at NPR:
The "Bucket" List Obama uses now as he asked, " 'Do you have a bucket list?' I say, well I have something that rhymes with bucket." Immigration executive action? "Bucket!" he deadpanned. Stricter climate rules. "Bucket!"
Those Grey Hairs: "I look so old John Boehner's already invited Netanyahu to speak at my funeral." Meanwhile, First Lady Michelle Obama looks great, he said. "I ask her her secret. She says, [Obama employing a nasally voice] 'Fresh fruits and vegetables.' It's aggravating." He also lamented that he has so much to do, like negotiate with Iran, "all while finding time to pray five times a day."
President Barack Obama bringing out actor Keegan-Michael Key from Key & Peele to play Luther, Obama's "Anger Translator" during the White House Correspondents dinner.
"Arrogant And Aloof" and how "people say I'm arrogant and aloof," the president said. "Some people are so dumb."
The end of Times when "Michele Bachmann predicted I would bring about the Biblical end of days. Now that's big. ... Lincoln, Washington — they didn't do that."
Hillary Clinton and how the economy's gotten so bad for some people, Obama said, "I had a friend, just a few weeks ago, she was making millions of dollars a year, and now she's living out of a van in Iowa."
The 2016 GOP Field with "the Koch brothers that think they need to spend a billion dollars to get folks to like one of these people," Obama said of the potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates. "I raised a lot ... but my middle name is Hussein."
Reach Out And Touch A Veep when he was talking about how close he and Vice President Biden have gotten, especially in stressful times, Obama joked that he loves Biden's back massages. "Those Joe Biden shoulder massages are like magic. You should try one." [Pause.] "Oh, you have?" He added, "We've gotten so close, in some places in Indiana, they won't serve us pizza anymore."
A Third Obama Term (Sorta) with regard to if a Bernie Saunders got elected and talking about how much he liked Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who could run for the Democratic nomination for president: "Apparently people really want to see a pot-smoking socialist in the White House. We could get a third Obama term after all."
Anyway, the lovely Cecily Strong steps up to the podium making no bones about "how great it feels to have a woman follow Obama."
Wait a second? Is Tina Fey gay? Cecily just said that "she is the first straight female that hosted this event."
I am glad she mentioned my man Joel McHale who did the hosting last year. I love everything Joel does even though Community went from being a show on Thursday nights at NBC in the last year, over to Yahoo TV.
Nice jabs at CSPAN and there are a few of them.
The Washington Hilton is getting crushed tonight because of how many things that happened in it, are corrupt.
Cecily now gets on the Secret Service which she should do but anyway, she states that they are "the only law enforcement agency that actually gets in trouble if a black guy gets shot."
Cecily now gets on Vice President Joe Biden too in the same way the POTUS did, with a massage joke. "I took Amtrak here. It was way more luxurious than I thought. Did you know they have massage seats on there? All you have to do is sit in front of Joe Biden. Those hands don’t get tired."
She then says that the Obama family is just like us! She also got on how President Obama is showing his age. "Your hair is so white now, it can talk back to the police."
The jokes about CNN and MSNBC are great. She talks about the many Lock Up shows on all weekend (Lock Up Bloopers, etc.) at MSNBC. Which i agree there are so many variations of it on all weekend these days. I think I watched a few of them way early and before the Steve Kornacki show this AM.
She also talks about how when there is a huge news story happening, that we can go to CNN to see Chef Anthony Bourdain "eat a cricket."
Cecily then explains to us how USA Today is around unless of course "it is Saturday or Sunday."
And, oof. The Amanda Knox joke or point she makes about that incident is a rough one. I did not know about DNA being on any knife and honestly, I thought she knocked the kid off a bluff or a hill near the ocean. Or, am I speaking about those deaths that went down on spring break in Aruba two times? Either way though, I also think Amanda Knox is hot which says it all about me.
The ISIS joke went over my head. Sorry but I don't get it or I missed it. I must be an idiot, however, the follow up to it about Brian Williams is a good one. She can't say anything about Brian because you know, "she works for NBC."
So did (went over my head) the Blackish and Sea World joke unless it has something to do with that documentary film, 'Blackfish.'
Cecily does get on the First Lady Michelle Obama for her eating lots of veggies (The POTUS did too BTW) saying that "it is a dream to sit next to you but it is a nightmare to eat next to you." I guess Cecily is a meat eater. Oh well. So, she is not perfect. She eats dead animals.
I am surprised she knows about Aaron Schock. Cool. Great Instagram photos of those two travelling together while being on vacation. Lots of Aaron Schock jokes tonight. Probably too many considering it is Aaron Schock. Plus, nothing about him taking people to that Bears football game on that plane. or, him taking the kids to that Katy Perry concert somewhere out of state too.
Great jab at Obama for him not going to France for that rally back in January and like Obama did tonight, Cecily (POTUS did too) gets on Jim Inhofe for him bringing in a snow ball to prove a point about global warming (or lack there of). She really gets on Tom Cotton for when he sent that note to the Ayatollah that was also signed by 47 other congress people.
Cecily's lead in to talk about women comes after a joke about Israel giving a great donation to he Hillary campaign, "It feels so weird to be up here. Since I’m only a comedian, I’m not going to try and tell you how to do politics. That would be like you guys telling me what to do with my body. I mean, can you even imagine? Crazy."
I never heard of Hobby Lobby BTW, until that issue broke although I did see a store in Florida when I was down there since that story broke last year.
And, overall about her (Cecily Strong) tonight, Cecily's excitement about Hillary Clinton's presidential bid came out many times during her set, "I’m excited about Hillary running, though I’m not sure she’s excited about having to run. I imagine she feels the same way Meryl Streep feels when she’s asked to audition for something."
Anyway, good night all around. Obama was great. Cecily was great. And, I am proud of both of them for only saying one blurb mentioning the back slapping compliment knows as a 'nerd."
A lot of amazing points were made about the USA today in that funny sorta way!
