Colin Jost, the featured entertainer at this 12 months’s White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation Dinner, went all in on Donald Trump and his authorized troubles, received in a number of zingers about Joe Biden’s age and completed his gig by telling a protracted story of how the president is a “first rate” man.
A few of Jost’s jokes didn’t land within the room, however he did nicely when he framed the 2024 election race,
“Let me see if I can summarize the place this race stands at this second,” Jost stated. “The Republican candidate for president owe s half a billion in fines for financial institution fraud and is at the moment spending his days farting himself awake throughout a porn star hush cash trial and the race is tied?!”
“The race is tied. Nothing is smart anymore. The candidate who’s a New York Metropolis playboy took abortion rights away, and the man who’s attempting to offer your abortion rights again is an 80-year-old Catholic. How does that make sense?”
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He went on, “By the way in which, President Biden — isn’t it loopy that he’s solely our second Catholic president? And what’s even crazier is that in just some quick months, we can have our third in RFK Jr.”
Biden smiled and clapped.
Jost added, “I’m kidding. Like his vaccine card stated, he doesn’t have a shot.”
Biden additionally laughed when Jost made a reference to an embarrassing incident on the White Home final 12 months.
“The final time I used to be in DC I left my cocaine on the White Home. Fortunately, the president was capable of put it to good use for his State of the Union,” Jost stated.
Just like the president, Jost completed his remarks on a severe tone, speaking about decency and the way Biden mirrored that.
“My grandpa voted for decency, and decency is why we’re all right here tonight,” he stated. “Decency is how we’re capable of be right here tonight. Decency is how we’re capable of make jokes about one another and one in every of us doesn’t go to jail afterwards. We go to the Newsmax after occasion.”
Extra to return.
