Michelle Wolf is reflecting on her explosive experience hosting the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2018.
Wolf sat down with legendary rapper Talib Kweli on Uproxx’s “People’s Party” program. Wolf admitted she kept the White House totally out of the loop regarding her speech. In fact, under no circumstance was she prepared to spill the beans on her comedy routine.
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“I didn’t run anything by them. If they had asked for a script, I would have given them a completely fake transcript,” she told Kweli. “I’d run the set for an entire month before it happened and somehow it didn’t get leaked anywhere. Also, no one knew who I was… which was helpful.”
“I’m not doing it for the room,” she remembers telling her fellow comics. “I’m doing it for the people at home.”
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Kweli asked Wolf how she felt about comics no longer being asked to host the Correspondents dinner following her turn at the wheel.
“Very happy,” Wolf laughed. “I’m very happy that it’s broken, it never should have existed in the first place.”
