Can't anybody take a joke anymore? When it comes to the annual media dinner, the answer seems to be no.
Hundreds attend the White House correspondents' dinner in 2017, when the featured speaker was comedian Hasan Minhaj. By Emily Heil Emily Heil Co-author of the Reliable Source Email Bio Follow April 25 at 7:00 AM In the ballroom of the Washington Hilton on Saturday night, there will be tuxes hauled from the backs of closets and an entree with the texture of a dish sponge. There will be tipsy journalists and cocktail-party chatter.
SiriusXM chief Washington correspondent Olivier Knox, as the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, was the one in charge of selecting this year’s entertainment. And he fully takes the blame — or credit, depending on one’s perspective — for dulling the dinner down.
And the Wolf controversy might not have been a one-off: Many observers say that comedy in the context of the media dinner is tough to pull off in an era where political humor is weaponized and even laughing can feel like a partisan act. “I always thought that Jon Stewart killed the correspondents’ dinner,” said Steve Clemons, the editor at large for The Hill newspaper and a veteran of more dinners than he can count. “Because after him, there was an edginess in comedy in the dinner . . . and it all became really politically charged.”
Members of the media, too, aren’t in much of a laughing mood these days when it comes to jokes aimed at them, Clemons noted, pointing to attacks on the press by the administration, the public’s eroding faith in the Fourth Estate and violence against reporters around the globe. “We can be a bit thin-skinned, I don’t think the media has ever been targeted the way it has,” he said. “Journalism is on edge in terms of our role and place, and I don’t think we feel as secure as we used to.
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