Comedian Roy Wood Jr. didn’t hold back on making fun of current events at the 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday.
The “Daily Show” correspondent touched on the firing of Fox host Tucker Carlson, CNN host Don Lemon and other shifts in media at the dinner attended by journalists and media personalities who cover the White House and high-ranking American politicians, including the president and vice president on April 28.
Most notably, Wood brought the house down at the Washington Hilton in Washington D.C. with a joke about the current controversy with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
One of two Black Supreme Court associate justices, Thomas made headlines recently after it was revealed that he accepted lavish vacations and gifts from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow without completing financial disclosures.
“A billionaire named Harlan Crown is flying Clarence Thomas all over the world in unreported trips like an Instagram model,” Wood said. “Taking Clarence to the Maldives, the beaches and all that. Paid for his mama’s house. This billionaire paid for Clarence’s Thomas’ mama’s house.”
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For years, the annual dinner has featured a comedian who jokes about the political climate and the key players involved. The president also makes fun of himself for the entertainment of the members of the White House Correspondents’ Association.
Proceeds from the black-tie event finance the journalists’ work covering the president, scholarships and programs that promote free speech. It also includes an award presentation.
Wood, whose father was a civil rights journalist, joked that some Black people wouldn’t mind removing Thomas from the Black delegation in his introduction to his bit about the Black justice’s ties to the Republican donor.
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