Trump's Twitter targets for today, the WHCD and Michelle Wolf.

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a failure last year, but this year was an embarrassment to everyone associated with it. The filthy “comedian” totally bombed (couldn’t even deliver her lines-much like the Seth Meyers weak performance). Put Dinner to rest, or start over!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2018

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is DEAD as we know it. This was a total disaster and an embarrassment to our great Country and all that it stands for. FAKE NEWS is alive and well and beautifully represented on Saturday night!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2018

I would just first like to point out that if Trump thinks he is hurting Michelle Wolf's career in any way by going after her on Twitter he is dead wrong.

She is launching a new show on Netflix, and she has just gone from a comedian that only a few people know about, to a national figure who is the subject of tweets by the president of the United States.

There is no way this hurts her professionally.

And that goes for the attacks by the conservatives, and some self identified "liberals," as well.

Which by the way are completely without merit.

Courtesy of Vulture:

As soon as Michelle Wolf finished delivering her blistering White House Correspondents’ Dinner roast of the Trump administration and the members of the press that cover it, she was, not surprisingly, criticized for much of what she said. Oddly, however, a lot of that criticism zeroed in on something that Michelle Wolf did not actually say: a joke about Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s appearance.

The two jokes that seemed to irk critics were her Handmaid’s Tale dig — “I have to say I’m a little starstruck. I love you as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid’s Tale” — and the aforementioned line about Sanders’s smoky eye, which went like this: “I actually really like Sarah. I think she’s very resourceful. She burns facts, and then she uses the ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.”

Somehow this was misconstrued to be an attack on Huckabee Sander's appearance, which it clearly was not.

In stead it was an attack on her honesty, which, let's face it, was more than appropriate.

However both conservatives and some in the media spouted their faux outrage all over Twitter.

That @PressSec sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking out, on national television, was impressive.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 29, 2018

And of course Mika Brzezinski also had to give her two cents.

Women who use their government positions to spread lies and misinformation deserve to face the same withering criticism as men. But leave our looks out of it. Watching from home, I hurt for Sarah, her husband and her children.

— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) April 29, 2018

All of this seemed to puzzle Michelle Wolf who responded with this:

Why are you guys making this about Sarah’s looks? I said she burns facts and uses the ash to create a *perfect* smoky eye. I complimented her eye makeup and her ingenuity of materials. https://t.co/slII9TYdYx

— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) April 29, 2018

Exactly.

Look if you are a conservative then misrepresenting the facts and participating in faux outrage is kinda what you do.

But if you are supposed to be a "journalist" of some kind you are expected to adhere to the facts, and there were several media types who failed to meet that expectation.

And like I said all of this does nothing but help Michelle Wolf's career, and ensure that when her Netflix show drops on May 27 that it will have a lot more folks tuned in.

So keep it up conservatives (And Mika Brzezinski) cause all it does is put money in her pockets.

Here is Michelle Wolf's entire White House Correspondents Dinner performance, because I think it deserves to be seen. Update!

I have to confess that I turned this off part way through last night because it just wasn't working for me.

However yesterday when I returned from the movies I discovered that my furnace was broken, and $247.00 later I just was not in the mood for comedy.

So I watched it all the way through this morning, and it was actually not bad.

Not all of the jokes landed, but then they never do.

Also if you dislike Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Michelle Wolf is your spirit animal.

Besides this performance pissed the conservatives off BIG TIME, which to me is really the only endorsement this performance needs.

Fox News' Ed Henry: WHCA Owes Apology to Sarah Sanders for 'Disgusting' Jokes https://t.co/FMzYgqmIKX (VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/j9nHSZRsp1

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) April 29, 2018

P.S. I may be biased but in my opinion the very best WHCD comedian of all time remains this guy.

Update: This might have been Wolf's most cutting remark of the night. (And the most truthful.)

The last thing I'll say is that Michelle Wolf's bit about the media was objectively true—I include myself here and it sucks to have to reckon with that every day but the least we could do is not turn around and become apologists for a regime that wants to ruin people's lives pic.twitter.com/d6v70SxHTN

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) April 29, 2018

Perhaps this is why so many so-called "liberal" journalists are piling on the comedian along with the usual conservative snowflakes.

This may sound weird but I am really looking forward to the 2018 White House Correspondent's Dinner.

Courtesy of Variety:  

Michelle Wolf, the headliner at this year’s White House Correspondents Association Dinner, says that she doesn’t plan to hold back on her material, even if President Donald Trump attends the event. 

“What is the fun in holding back?” she told Variety on Friday. “I feel like you are not doing a job as a comedian. If you are willing to say something about someone, you should be willing to say it on Twitter, to their face, whatever. So I think if you want to say something you got to step up and say it.” 

Wolf was announced as the featured entertainer at the WHCA event, scheduled for April 28 at the Washington Hilton. She recently signed for a new series on Netflix and had a popular HBO special “Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady,” and also was a contributor to “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.” 

She’s been biting in her humor about Trump. Just after the election, in a bit with Noah, she quipped that Trump’s election was “the worst thing to happen to women since yeast.” 

Wolf said she’s preparing for a number of scenarios, although, “I don’t think my set is going to change whether he is there or not.”

“I figure I will go in with several contingency plans,” she said. “He says he is going to go, and he doesn’t. He says he is not going to go, and then he shows up. And then he goes and he leaves in the middle. I am going to plan for all possible scenarios. I’ll be excited no matter what.”

I have to say that I was really underwhelmed with Hasan Minhaj last year, who is also a Daily Show alum, but far more excited about Michelle Wolf.

I have seen her bits on the Daily Show, and they are always good, which is more than you can say about a lot of the bits on the Daily Show these days.

I have also watched her onstage, and she is hysterical.

If you don't believe me you can check out this stand up from the Apollo.

See? What did I tell you?

I actually kind of hope that Trump shows up this year just so we can see him with that same stern look from the last time he showed up for one of these celebrations.

Yeah, that's the one.

How Europe sees the NRA and America's fixation with guns.

Gee I so love having my country so easily ridiculed by the rest of the world.

However it is impossible to say that we do not deserve it.

Melissa McCarthy wins Emmy for her portrayal of former White House press secretary Sean Spicer. So well deserved.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

Melissa McCarthy brought home an Emmy this weekend for her memorable impersonation of former White House press secretary Sean Spicer on "Saturday Night Live." 

The actress won an Emmy for best actress on a comedy series at the Emmy’s creative arts awards Sunday, according to The Associated Press. The awards are a precursor to the main show next weekend. 

McCarthy’s impersonation of Spicer, featuring her driving a podium through New York City, firing a water gun at reporters and repeatedly threatening to run them over with the podium, drew wide praise.

There are very few positives to take away from the Trump presidency (And THAT'S an understatement if ever there were one.) but  McCarthy's impersonation of "Spicey" was certainly my favorite.

It pure joy watching what McCarthy did with these skits, and I firmly believe that the fact they upset Trump so much is part of the reason that Spicer ultimately got the big heave ho.

Here let's just take a moment to remind ourselves why she is so deserving of this honor.

Yep, still makes me laugh myself sick.

Made even better by the fact that you just know this is really fucking with Donald Trump's day. 

Lewis Black identifies when he first realized that his days as a comedian were coming to an end.

"We are living in fictional times."

Damn, if only that were true.

But I totally get what he is saying.

I have seen a number of late night comics struggle with the same conundrum.

This entire presidency is like one long, poorly written SNL skit.

Except in this skit the objects of ridicule are the audience members who allowed this show to go on in the first place.

Last night Bill Maher's New Rules featured a face familiar to all of us here on IM.

What did he call Sarah Palin?

The Daenerys Stillborn of the House of Pancakes? Yeah, I liked that.

Of course what most people are talking about concerning the show today, was this:

This just happened on @RealTimers with @billmaher pic.twitter.com/P58uThgMYs

— Matt Wilstein (@mattwilstein) August 12, 2017

I am not sure that is an actual unretouched photo, but I firmly believe one just like it exists somewhere.

Pretty good show last night though it is becoming increasingly obvious that the Trump administration is becoming so ridiculous as to defy any attempts at parody.

All Maher has to do is dictate what is actually happening to his audience and then wait for the shocked gasps and uneasy laughter.  

SNL has most successful season in decades, receives 22 Emmy nominations.

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

Following its most successful season in more than two decades, “Saturday Night Live” secured 22 Emmy nominations on Thursday, the most in its decades-long history.

The NBC variety show transformed into something more over the course of its 42nd season, as millions of liberal-minded people across the country looked to Lorne Michaels and his cast to help make sense of the country’s election of President Donald Trump. 

That interest was reflected in its ratings ― it was the most watched season in more than two decades ― and now in its Emmy nominations, as the show bested its previous nomination record of 16, which it set in 2011 and tied last year.

Of course Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon were nominates, for Best Comedy Supporting Actor and Best Comedy Supporting Actress.

And that was well deserved indeed.

This season was the best one I have seen in quite a long time, and those two made it a joy.

I really think that SNL did a real public service with the skits showing Trump as Putin's puppet. It's just too bad that those in the heartland thing this is all left wing propaganda.

I had a lot of favorite sketches this last season, but I think the following was my all time favorites.

Hey, it made me appreciate Hillary Clinton a lot more.

In case you missed it here, is Hasan Minhaj's performance from last night's White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Certainly did not pull any punches did he?

I also saw some of Trump's pathetic rally last night, which should be described as a public therapy session for the tragically insecure.

The entire bitch fest was overflowing with lies that Trump gleefully shared with the crowd, secure in the knowledge that most of them are functionally illiterate.

Not only did Trump tell the unwashed dipshits that his presidency was the greatest presidency since the dawn of presidencies, but that he had completed a long list of amazing achievements.

Why have we not heard of these achievements? Simple.

Mainstream (FAKE) media refuses to state our long list of achievements, including 28 legislative signings, strong borders & great optimism!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 29, 2017

Yeah, that's it.

Trump also claimed during his own version of the Nuremburg rallies that the crowd was "the largest every" in that venue and that people were left standing outside.

Unfortunately for Trump, there is a thing called Twitter.

Trump says "we have a lot of ppl standing outside" and he "broke the all time record" in this arena. There are rows of empty seats here pic.twitter.com/ixbErKjrQu

— Jonathan Tamari (@JonathanTamari) April 30, 2017

Here's another part of the arena where Trump says people have been left standing outside. Lots of ppl here, but not at all capacity pic.twitter.com/M6gtVF0PhN

— Jonathan Tamari (@JonathanTamari) April 30, 2017

All in all Trump's rally appeared to be a desperate cry for affirmation.

Perhaps the best ticket for entertainment last night would have been one for Samantha Bee's "Not the Correspondents' Dinner," which mocked...you know....pretty much everybody.

Here was my favorite part.  There was almost too much going on yesterday to keep up.

However if you had to miss anything, clearly the best event to skip was Trump's desperate cry for attention. 

"I'm not talking about the peepee!" SNL showers Donald Trump in golden comedy during cold open.

"I am going to bring back a thick stream of jobs back to this country. The biggest, strongest, steadiest stream you've ever seen. This country will literally showered with jobs. Because I am a major wiz at jobs. It will be a golden opportunity for me as president to make a big splash."

I laughed so hard I almost peed.

The Liberal Redneck is getting himself a sitcom.

Courtesy of Deadline:

Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to a half-hour single-camera comedy starring comedian Trae Crowder, best known for his stage persona the Liberal Redneck. Inspired by Crowder’s life, the untitled project hails from Warner Bros. TV and Rob Thomas’ studio-based Spondoolie Productions.

The comedy will be written by Crowder and John Enbom, who co-created the cult Starz comedy series Party Down with Thomas, Dan Etheridge and Paul Rudd. In the Fox show, worlds collide when Trae, based on Crowder’s Liberal Redneck character, returns to his conservative Tennessee hometown to start a job at an energy research facility with his California-born wife in tow.

Before you all freak out that this is on Fox, remember that Fox Broadcasting has very little in common with Fox News, and that they are the home of Glee and The Simpsons.

Having said that I am not sure how the show will do because not all sitcoms based around a comedian's stage act workout as well as Seinfeld.

For instance, I find "The King of Queens" and "Everybody Hates Chris" completely unwatchable, and though I loved John Mulaney on stage when they canceled his short-lived TV career  it seemed like a mercy killing.

Personally was hoping that Crowder would find a spot on Comedy Central as I thought that station could use a little of his redneck sensibilities.

In fact, he could have been a great addition to the Daily Show as one of their correspondents.

Well, I will withhold judgment until I see the show.

I certainly think that Crowder has the talent, so all he needs is the proper vehicle.

Hillary Clinton on the Ellen Show. "I would just feel this presence behind me, I thought whoa this is really weird!"

Hillary also addressed the notorious "grab their pu**y" tape and said that Trump seemed "wrought up" and filled with anger.

When Ellen pointed out that it seemed that the Trump campaign was "crumbling" Hillary made a point of telling the audience that she does not want anybody to think the election is over and that they need to "turn out and vote."

At the end of the segment Ellen showed this tape to Clinton and the audience. Just watch Hillary's reaction.

And they say she is cold and humorless.

Covering the RNC was such a herculean undertaking that Stephen Colbert not only enlisted the help of Jon Stewart, but he took the REAL/FAKE Stephen Colbert out of mothballs.

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

Stephen Colbert tromped out to a cabin in the woods to find Jon Stewart on last night’s “Late Show,” in hopes that the former “Daily Show” host could explain how Donald Trump came to pass. 

Putting aside his chi kombucha, Colbert invited his friend in for some kale jerky, but desperately begged him to forego his beard care to explain how Donald Trump became the Republican nominee for president.

And ye shall know him as Colbert.

The Word, I thought I was going to die and go to heaven.

As if that was not exciting enough, and it was exciting enough, Daily Show alumna Samantha Bee also took a turn at mocking the convention. And she even brought a little Sarah Palin into the mix.

Courtesy of The Wrap:

Samantha Bee kicked off her Republican National Convention coverage with a scorching indictment of — well, pretty much everything about the convention. 

She began by mocking the fact that numerous sponsors pulled their support from the RNC due to Donald Trump’s controversial nature and the fact that many popular Republicans like Sarah Palin have declined to speak at the event. 

Bee also ripped the party’s ultra-conservative platform, which solidified its staunch stances on transgender bathroom use and against gay marriage.

There is literally so much to mock that I think these shows may have to hire extra staff.

I can hardly wait to see what is in the offing for tomorrow. 

Stephen Colbert takes over the GOP convention stage.

Colbert just hijacked the #RNCinCLE stage 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/dB4mSPCn4e

— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) July 17, 2016

Pretty sure that "security guard" is one of his people.

Looks like it is going to be a very entertaining week inside the convention center, and a possible blood bath outside on the streets:

Crowds of protesters were expected to pack the streets of downtown Cleveland on Sunday just as Republicans were arriving for Monday’s kickoff of the Republican National Convention. 

The groups expected to descend on the city were focused on a range of agendas. A coalition of activists planned to hold a “Shut Down Trump and the R.N.C.” march to oppose the nomination of Donald J. Trump. The group wants to march through downtown to City Hall and the area outside the Quicken Loans Arena, where delegates will meet to vote on the party’s nominee. But pro-Trump rallies are also planned.

And even the Ohio Governor has very little he can do to protect his citizens from armed protesters:

Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY’-sihk) says he doesn’t have authority to suspend the state’s law allowing people to openly carry guns. 

Kasich responded Sunday to a request by the Cleveland police union president for the suspension of the law during the Republican National Convention, which begins Monday. 

The request by union president Steve Loomis followed Sunday morning’s fatal shooting of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Personally you could not pay me enough to go to Cleveland right now.

I certainly hope that Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have security, because I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that all lives are in danger in that environment.

The White House Correspondents' Dinner Open Thread. Sure why not? Update!

President Obama with his anger translator from the 2015 dinner.

Man I always look forward to this night.

I have to admit I never really cared about the WHCD before but ever since the Comedian-in-Chief took office it is "must see TV."

I have very high hopes for tonight which will be hosted by Comedy Central's Larry Wilmore.

However it is not Wilmore that I am interested in watching, in fact I actually NEVER watch Larry Wilmore anymore.

No I am anxiously awaiting the comedy stylings of on Barack Hussein Obama.

And I have no doubt he will not disappoint.

Here is just a small reminder of his genius from back in 2011.

You know I still contend that this was the night that Donald Trump decided that he was going to make a run for the White House and show that uppity.......President that he could not mock him in public.

Somehow I think that tonight the President will remind him that he most certainly CAN mock him in public.

Update: This was good.

Obama: Thanks Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for my rising poll numbers #WHCD pic.twitter.com/L1FhEOEzAm

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 1, 2016

Update 2:

.@johnboehner makes cameo in @POTUS #WHCD video: "Stop sending me all these LinkedIn requests!" pic.twitter.com/5MkJA9zyQl

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 1, 2016

The best part of Real Time last night.

“I smell with my tongue” …and 25 other things you didn’t know about Ted Cruz, thanks to @BillMaher. WATCH:https://t.co/pToAJBnMBC

— Real Time (@RealTimers) April 23, 2016

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

Using a recent article in US magazine that disclosed that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton enjoys hot sauce on her meals, Maher’s writers came up with a similar fun fact list for the Texas senator. 

“We have something called ‘equal time’ in America so now the other candidates are getting their 25 things you don’t know about me,” Maher explained before sharing a few. 

Included in the list: 

“I spent my entire freshman year of high school stuffed in a locker.” 

“My nickname at Princeton was F*ckface” 

“I named the stick up my ass, ‘Hank.'” 

“Mirrors don’t show my reflection.”

I loved that mirror one.

I thought this bit was sort of funny, but what made it hysterical was watching Van Jones completely losing it

SNL skewered Hillary Clinton over her losses to Bernie Sanders last night.

You know I seem to remember a certain conservative Trump supporter bitching about the negative way that SNL portrays conservatives.

I will assume that she simply missed all of the Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton parodies of the nineties. Or the Obama parodies that have been a staple for the last eight years now.

And you can count on Kate McKinnon to have many more opportunities to put on her Hillary Clinton wig in the months to come, not to mention her job security if Clinton wins the White House.

Crazy Donald Trump supporter parodied on SNL upset that they made her look crazy.

As it turned out Hughes seemingly good humored response to the SNL bit was only a facade.

Courtesy of The Blaze: 

After her appearance on CNN, Hughes spoke candidly with The Blaze about how she was portrayed. 

“You’ve never known ‘SNL’ to parody any conservative in a positive way — either male or female,” she said, adding, “I don’t get paid to be positive about Mr. Trump. I’ve never been paid by him.” 

“I’m a little shaken after this,” she said of the “SNL” skit. “I had no idea this was coming.” 

Since the episode aired, Hughes shared that “tears have been shed” and friends have reached out to ask how she is doing. 

“Those who know me know that I’m actually a very insecure person. I read every tweet,” she said.

Yes isn't it a shame when somebody recognizes your lunacy and puts it on TV for all the world to see?

Let's not forget that this is the same woman who describes herself as a, "gun-fearing, gun-toting, baby-loving, traditional marriage believing, SUV I don’t care about my carbon imprint driving, border securing, Benghazi truth seeking...lame stream media smacking, sip my sweet tea from a Big Gulp drinking, RINO hunting, target of IRS auditing, ‘one nation under God’ pledging mom."

 I'm not a psychiatrist, but that does come off as a LITTLE unhinged.

So with all that in mind, exactly why does CNN allow her to participate in supposedly serious panel discussions about politics? 

Last night's SNL cold open addresses Donald Trump's crazed supporters.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast: 

Once again this week, Saturday Night Live opened with the wonderful world of CNN’s political coverage. And this time, they were tackling Donald Trump’s growing problem with women. 

As perpetually-frustrated anchor Kate Bolduan—who has “the brains for MSNBC and the hair for Fox News”—Kate McKinnon interviewed a “full-blown nutjob” Trumpkin named Scottie Nell Hughes (played by Cecily Strong) who you would be forgiven for thinking is a fictional character but does in fact exist in real life.

Yes she actually does exist.

Her name is Scottie Nell Hughes, and she is described in a previous Daily Beast article as:  

The self-described “gun-fearing, gun-toting, baby-loving, traditional marriage believing, SUV I don’t care about my carbon imprint driving, border securing, Benghazi truth seeking...lame stream media smacking, sip my sweet tea from a Big Gulp drinking, RINO hunting, target of IRS auditing, ‘one nation under God’ pledging mom”

So yes this video is entertaining and fun to watch, but let's not forget that these lunatics are out there walking among us, and if the idea of those people gaining some semblance of power in this country is not enough to drive us to the polls in November, than nothing will.

And finally let's end the day with last night's not to be missed SNL cold open.

I think that right now there is really no group of people who are enjoying this election cycle nearly as much as late night comedy writers.

It's like Christmas morning every single day right now.