Posted on 02/18/2020 5:23:38 AM PST by yesthatjallen
The White House Correspondents’ Association is pleased to announce the lineup for its annual dinner, to be held on Saturday, April 25, 2020.
Kenan Thompson, the actor and longest-tenured Saturday Night Live cast-member, will serve as the evening’s host. Hasan Minhaj, the Peabody award-winning host of Netflix’s Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, will return to the dinner as featured entertainer.
“Kenan and Hasan are two of the most engaged and engaging entertainers in America. I’m thrilled they’ll help us celebrate the role of a free press in our democracy,” said Jonathan Karl, Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News and president of the WHCA. “We’re looking forward to a lively evening honoring the most important political journalism of the past year.”
The WHCA will be presenting two new awards at the 2020 dinner: The Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability and the Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage by Visual Journalists. These are in addition to the longstanding Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage and Merriman Smith Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure.
This year’s dinner will also include the inaugural presentation of the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability, administered by the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications to recognize outstanding statehouse reporting.
Kenan Thompson began his career as a member of Nickelodeon’s sketch series All That. Thompson is currently in his 17th season on SNL where he has set a record for the most celebrity impressions performed on the show. In 2018, he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Hasan Minhaj has hosted his Netflix show since 2018, drawing critics’ raves, including a Peabody award in 2019, for his humorous and informed examination of issues of domestic and global import. He was the entertainer at the 2017 WHCA Dinner when he was a senior correspondent on The Daily Show. His one-hour Netflix comedy special Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King was released in 2017, for which he won his first Peabody Award in 2018.
This year the WHCA has partnered with Bob Bain Productions, which has produced such events as the Critics’ Choice Awards, the Teen Choice Awards, the Creative Arts Emmys, Miss America and the Trevor Noah stand-up specials.
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is a non-partisan event that supports the work of the WHCA to protect the role of independent news media coverage of the president. Proceeds fund the organization’s operating expenses and go toward scholarships and awards aimed at promoting aspiring journalists and recognizing excellence in the journalism profession.
Stay tuned for further announcements about the 2020 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
For more information, contact WHCA Executive Director Steve Thomma at director@whca.press or 202-266-7453.
Dinner Details
The 2020 dinner will be held on Saturday, April 25th. Only WHCA members are eligible to purchase tickets. Auctions and raffles of WHCA dinner tickets designed to raise money for other organizations or for commercial purposes are against the policy of the organization.
Non partisan event my A$$!
I hope our POTUS is a definite no show!
Fake news.
Black male host for everything
6% of population.
Well it didn't take long for them to start telling jokes!
I hope no one from the White House dignifies this partisan hate-fest with their presence this year.
Where will Pres. Trump be having a gigantic rally on that evening?
Nothing but yet another Leftist Lovefest. Just like ALL the ‘awards’ shows, this will prove to be a snooze for people who actually think.
I did not know there were any White House correspondents.
Haven’t seen a Sarah Sanders type press briefing in a long time.
Why does this group still exist? Why is this partisan activity still scheduled? Does the media not already have enough opportunity to share the bias, bigotry, and anti-Trump hate?
You have to laugh at the utter hypocrisy of Dems!
DEMOCRATS GAVE AMERICA:
*Slavery
*Jim Crow Segregation Laws
*THE KKK
*Japanese Internment camps
*Voting against the ‘64 CRA
*Voting against the ‘65 VRA
*Holding up as icons racists like Sanger and Byrd
And they dare lecture the GOP about racism!
In their sick minds, having Black person host their stupid events, they think they have a pass on their racist past!
The true racists are now, and have always been white liberals!
Is it even 6% with the millions of illegals coming into the US from the south?
>>“Kenan and Hasan are two of the most engaged and engaging entertainers in America.”
Who???
6% if you mean black males. 13% black if you include females.
“The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is a non-partisan event ...”
If: Journalist
Then: Partisan and 99% chance of being a low IQ liberal.
We’re on to these clowns and they hate that.
>>”I’m thrilled they’ll help us celebrate the role of a free press in our democracy,”
Obama did not tolerate a free press. He spied on journalists and jailed filmmakers.
But these leftist kiss-ass sycophants “never realized”.
>>“We’re looking forward to a lively evening honoring the most important political journalism of the past year.”
fake news
Did they find one? in the U.S.?
Can’t wait to miss it.
Mitt Romney can’t wait.
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