White House Correspondents’ Dinner host Michelle Wolf has been covertly working out live material for her speech, Page Six has learned.
While the audience at an out-of-the-way comedy night in Spanish Harlem was sworn to secrecy about the jokes, we’re told that “Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and even JFK were on the receiving end of potential punch lines” for the April 28 dinner in Washington, DC.
Other comics at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109’s stand-up show included Sam Morril, Joe List and Jason Kanter.
The press-hating Donald Trump is skipping the annual journalists’ bacchan al for the second year in a row.
It’s traditionally attended by POTUS, who is also typically the butt of many of the host’s jokes.
Since Trump’s inauguration, Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Time have all stopped hosting their annual star-studded parties surrounding the dinner.
Last year, Samantha Bee hosted her own “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” but she won’t return this year.
It will be the first time hosting the event for Wolf, who last year had a hit with her HBO special “Nice Lady.”