Colin Jost's set at the White House correspondents’ dinner

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Colin Jost's set at the White House correspondents’ dinner


Colin Jost headlined the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 27. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK

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  1. You’re a pathetic communist I could care less about you or your wife
    You’re all just a bunch of communist gather together to think of how you can further destroy our nation. There’s absolutely no decency in that room.

  2. Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
    "A few things spring to mind.
    Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
    That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

    There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of bullshit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

    He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W. look smart and articulate. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created?

  3. Wow. that's a lot of delusional democrats posting on this video. Decency? Freedom? FFS. There are two fascists running for president. We're all f'd. As for Jost, he's not funny. He's just a sycophant.

  4. Speech watchers we all have eternal life. The question is where will you spend it. Jesus died on the cross for you. He who hears my word (JESUS) and believes in Him (GOD) who sent me will have eternal life! He will not be condemned, he has crossed over from death to life. John 5:24

  5. Some great jokes and personal touch. Also, he shouted out RFK Jr. Traditional media would like to suppress that guy so hard. Worse than trump

  6. w̼i̼t̼h̼ o̼v̼e̼r̼ 1̼0̼0̼ j̼o̼u̼r̼n̼a̼l̼i̼s̼t̼s̼ d̼e̼a̼d̼ i̼n̼ i̼s̼r̼a̼e̼l̼, t̼h̼e̼ b̼l̼o̼o̼d̼ o̼f̼ t̼h̼e̼i̼r̼ o̼w̼n̼ s̼t̼a̼f̼f̼ i̼s̼ o̼n̼ t̼h̼e̼i̼r̼ h̼a̼n̼d̼s̼.
    t̼h̼e̼ g̼o̼v̼e̼r̼n̼m̼e̼n̼t̼ a̼n̼d̼ i̼t̼s̼ m̼e̼d̼i̼a̼ o̼f̼f̼e̼r̼ 2̼ o̼p̼t̼i̼o̼n̼s̼ i̼n̼ t̼h̼e̼ f̼a̼c̼e̼ o̼f̼ e̼v̼i̼l̼. s̼i̼l̼e̼n̼c̼e̼, o̼r̼ c̼e̼l̼e̼b̼r̼a̼t̼i̼o̼n̼.