Genuine and fake news will collide again at this year’s White Household Correspondents’ Affiliation evening meal.
Roy Wood Jr., who plays a reporter on “The Each day Present,” the prolonged-operating Comedy Central application that blends comedy and news, will headline the function on April 29.
Tamara Keith, president of the correspondents’ affiliation, said Thursday that Wooden delivers “a journalistic eye to his comedy.”
“He’s hilarious — but also makes guaranteed his audiences are considering as they chortle,” Keith stated.
The show’s previous host Trevor Noah spoke at past year’s dinner, at which President Joe Biden poked entertaining at himself, former President Donald Trump, the Republican Occasion and the users of the press.
“I’m actually energized to be right here tonight with the only group of Individuals with a decrease acceptance score than I have,” Biden, a Democrat, quipped then to an viewers of about 2,600, between them journalists, govt officials and superstars.