Joe Biden Rips Fox News Hypocrisy, Mocks Low Polls, Praises Trevor Noah & Shows WHCD He Gets “Let’s Go, Brandon!”

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Most of comedy’s top talent are in Los Angeles this weekend at the inaugural Netflix Is A Joke festival, but the best jokes literally and figuratively in the nation were at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington DC on Saturday.Sticking to a winning strategy of self-deprecation, President Joe Biden opened with “a special thanks to the 42% of you who actually applauded,” in a clear comment on his low poll numbers.

The President then addressed his immediate media heavy audience as the “only group of Americans with a lower approval rating than I have.”Ending his speech with praise to “good journalist, good satire,” Biden will be followed by Trevor Noah.

The Daily Show host has the somewhat thankless job of roasting POTUS in front of the man himself, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, as well as several of his Paramount Global bosses, peers and pals and members of the cabinet.Recalling how he was charmed when Noah called Biden “America’s new Dad” after the 2020 election, the nearly 80-year old POTUS added with perhaps his best delivery of the night, “I’m flattered when anyone would call me the new anything.”Tonight, in his first WHCD since getting the top job and the first POTUS to be at the shindig since Barack Obama’s mic drop swan song in 2016, Biden had to walk a careful line in his remarks.

Working with his staff and some outside talent on his speech, the crowd pleasing President had to make sure to get a few belly laughs while not seeming insensitive to the economic woes many Americans are experiencing and the carnage coming out of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.In that vein, and with fears of the Covid risks of the WHCD gathering, Biden took a direct swipe at the media outlet that rides him the hardest for