White House Correspondents Association Hopes Annual Dinner Spurs More Than Laughs

variety.com:

Trevor Noah, an opening skit by James Corden, and a greater number of cameras than usual to capture more of the star-studded audience.Most notably, President Joe Biden is expected to attend the hourlong April 30 dinner, resuming a tradition that Donald Trump suspended while in office.

Network news divisions have also invited celebrities such as Kim Kardashian to the event, dubbed the Nerd Prom for the social swirl surrounding it, with a Paramount after-party and dueling Sunday brunches hosted by Politico and CNN among the tie-in gatherings.

The glitzy nature of the festivities represents a marked change from the last WHCD in 2019. Hosted by a historian after Michelle Wolf ruffled the Trump administration’s feathers as a host the year prior by skewering officials such as former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in 2018.

The following year’s event relied on a historian, and, as such, had diminished entertainment value. To help punch up the event, the White House Correspondents’ Assn.