Samantha Bee’s hosting her own White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Lots of venerable institutions, including the notion of democracy, are under threat thanks to the new administration. We might not even be able to look forward to the annual roasting of the leader of the free world at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (and not just because he’s already been spray-tanned to the far end of a Pantone swatch). With President Donald Trump denouncing virtually every media outlet that doesn’t rhyme with “box poohs,” the odds of the Correspondents’ Association hosting the event aren’t looking too good. So, just as she stepped up in the late-night vacuum following Jon Stewart’s Daily Show exit, Samantha Bee is going to hold her own shindig.