Seth Meyers Will Host The 2011 White House Correspondence Dinner
The White House Correspondence Dinner is an annual event held in Washington, DC. It’s a meal where both political and Hollywood bigwigs show up. It’s also often hosted by a comedian whose job it is to play master of ceremonies and try to roast the people in charge to a room of people that often think very highly of themselves and aren’t often the best place to lay some jokes down to.
This year, SNL writer and Weekend Updater Seth Meyers has been tapped to handle the duties of walking that fine line of being funny while not being mean.
This isn’t Meyer’s first hosting duty, recently holding down the ESPN ESPY Awards and the Webby Awards. But we’re thinking this will be a bigger to Meyers, ’cause there’s the whole roasting of The President thing going on. Read the rest of this entry
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