Comedian Going to White House Correspondents’ Dinner. What About Trump?<br />She gained notice last year for an HBO comedy special, “Nice Lady,”<br />that Jason Zinoman, the comedy critic for , praised for its “silly fart jokes tied to meaty social commentaries that spin out into unexpected personal confessions interrupted by nicely crafted one-liners.”<br />Margaret Talev, a White House reporter for Bloomberg News who is president of the correspondents’ association, said<br />that Ms. Wolf’s “truth-to-power style makes her a great friend to the W. H.C. A.”<br />“Her Pennsylvania roots, stints on Wall Street and in science,<br />and self-made, feminist edge make her the right voice now,” Ms. Talev said in a statement.<br />Michelle Wolf, a stand-up comic and frequent contributor to “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah,” will be the featured entertainer at the annual<br />gathering on April 28, the association announced on Thursday, taking on one of the most prominent — and perilous — gigs in comedy.<br />Long a high point of the Washington social calendar, the correspondents’ dinner typically offers journalists<br />and presidents a chance to roast one another on live television in a celebrity-packed ballroom.<br />But Mr. Trump, not one to encourage comity with the White House press corps, skipped<br />last year’s proceedings, the first president to do so since Ronald Reagan in 1981.<br />WASHINGTON — A comedian has agreed to tell jokes at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
