Kenan Thompson inexplicably accepts thankless gig hosting White House Correspondents' Dinner

There was a time, way back in 2018 or so, when the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual “we’re all friends with the people we report on” dinner was a big event. The WHCA has often had a surprisingly big and surprisingly political comedian come in and host the show, like when Stephen Colbert made fun of George W. Bush’s terrible presidency right to his terrible face or when Seth Meyers slammed some orange buffoon so hard that he decided to become an even more terrible president. That changed after 2018, though, when Michelle Wolf used her time on the mic to make some good jokes at the expense of Donald Trump and then-current press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders (who, in a frustratingly blatant trap, was sent in Trump’s place).

Trump and his goons decided that Wolf’s jokes about Sanders were offensive and orchestrated such a backlash that the spineless WHCA itself released a statement denouncing Wolf and her jokes (because, again, they’re friends with the people they report on), inadvertently emphasizing just how dumb and self-congratulatory the event was in the first place. Chernow hosted last year because the WHCA was scared of getting yelled at by the great god-king again, but now it’s going back to the old days so hard that there will be two comedians hosting. Of course, it’s hard not to wonder why either of them would want to do this, since the WHCA has established that it will not hesitate to throw someone under the bus if they “upset” Trump, but maybe Thompson has something really funny and clever planned? Hell, we’ll take all of this snark back if he just gets up there and does “What Up With That?” for an hour.