Trevor Noah, James Corden, and Billy Eichner try to resurrect the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

After taking a few years off due to… you know, the bad stuff going on that made the whole concept seem as pointless and silly as it tends to be, the Washington D.C. press and the politicians they cover finally got back together this weekend for another installment of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The evening was, as usual, a lot of mutual back-patting and faux self-deprecation from both halves of the press/politics divide, and while the event has occasionally been a Big Deal (like the all-too-believable theory that some jokes from Seth Meyers inspired a certain someone to destroy the world), this year was more about having some laughs.

Most of those laughs came from host Trevor Noah, who opened his monologue with a bit about how dangerous the whole thing was and how even Dr. Fauci didn’t want to attend. He later made a rare good joke about the slap at the Oscars, saying it’s dangerous to do comedy these days and how he was concerned that he might make a really mean joke about former Mouth Of Sauron Kellyanne Conway (or words, not Noah’s) and her husband would rush on to the stage to… thank him. Good stuff!