The funniest jokes at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner
President Obama and Larry Wilmore went all in...
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Your support makes all the difference.Saturday marked President Barack Obama's last White House Correspondents' Dinner of his presidency, and boy was the so-called nerd prom hilarious.
Hosting the event was Larry Wilmore of Comedy Central’s Nightly Show, who took absolutely no prisoners during his comedy roast inside the Washington Hilton. The night also marked the first time in the past eight years that Vice President Joe Biden attended the dinner.
Without further ado, here are the best jokes from tonight's event:
• "This is a big and intimidating room, but I can say it beats solitary confinement." — Washington Post journalist Jason Rezain
• "Sorry I was late tonight, I was running on CPT—which stands for: jokes white people should not make." — President Obama
• "If this material works well, I'm going to use it at Goldman Sachs next year. Earn me some serious Tubmans."
• "Next year someone else will be standing in this spot. And it's anyone's guess who SHE will be."
• "Hillary trying to appeal to young voters is like your Aunt signing up for Facebook."
• "In my final year my approval ratings keep going up. The last time I was this high I was trying to decide on my major."
• "I want to thank Joe Biden for not shooting anybody in the face. Thank you, Joe."
WATCH: Pres. Obama drops the mic at end of #WHCD remarks: "Obama out" https://t.co/cpmMPwSnpo
— ABC News (@ABC) May 1, 2016
• "Welcome to Negro Night, or as Fox News would call it: "Two Thugs Interrupt Elegant Dinner." — Larry Wilmore
• "I saw you hanging out with NBA players like Steph Curry from the Golden State Warriors. It kinda makes sense, because both of you like raining down bombs on people from long distances."
• "I'm a Black man, who replaced a white man, who pretended to be a newscaster. So Lester Holt and I have a lot in common."
• "You came in here looking like Denzel. Now you're going out looking Grady from the Sanford and Son."
• "Speaking of drones, how is Wolf Blitzer still on television?."
• "I'm surprised Al Sharpton is a Hillary Clinton supporter. You don't put relaxer in your hair for 40 years and not feel the bern."
• “Killer Mike or as Hillary Clinton calls him 'Super-Predator Mike.'"
• “MSNBC now stands for Missing a Significant Number of Black Correspondents."
• “MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network."
Here is Larry Wilmore's entire bit. #WHCD https://t.co/fBRPMqrHOc
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) May 1, 2016
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