![]() That was in large part because the event’s invited comedian this time around, the rising star Michelle Wolf, took her “roast” mandate to a new extreme: She mocked, among others (CNN kept count): Mike Pence, Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Reince Priebus, Michael Cohen, Scott Pruitt, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Chris Christie, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Vladimir Putin, multiple anchors and correspondents from CNN, Fox News as a whole, Bill O’Reilly in particular, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, print journalism, television journalism, journalism in general. ![]() The Correspondents’ Dinner that took place on Saturday evening-the last Saturday in April, as per longstanding tradition-was, at least from the media-event perspective, the biggest one ever. In the process, the WHCD has become its own kind of media event: a reliable source of cable-news clips and Saturday-evening Twitter fodder and Sunday-morning conversation, often by way of the comedian who is invited to roast the journalists and the people they cover with the twin efficiencies of a cavernous ballroom and a live cable feed. (Much more circumstance: The thing, all in all, clocks in at more than 3 hours.) The dinner has also expanded thematically: It now bills itself as a general celebration of the First Amendment-and of the broader fact that “freedom” and “freedom of the press” are effectively the same thing. ![]() The event, like so many other things in Washington, has since expanded: Today there are many more participants-some 3,000 people, a mix of journalists, politicians, and assorted power players, of the Beltway and beyond-and also more pomp, and also more circumstance. ![]()
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