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White House Correspondents' Dinner

By Drew Grant 4/27/12 12:55pm

White House Correspondents' Dinner

An easy way to understand D.C.'s annual night of laffs (JESS3)

Google Breaks Down the White House Correspondents’ Dinner With Fun Infographic!

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner this weekend has D.C. is gearing up for its annual influx of celebrities, media outlets, party crashers, very etc.

The Academy Awards of politics, but without any actual awards being given (and usually with funnier hosts) has become one of the most tuned-into D.C. events of the year. But how many people outside the media itself actually care about the correspondent’s dinner?

For those answers we turn to JESS3, a creative agency that recently teamed up with Google to help people visualize political data through New York Magazine-style infographics.
Check out the full image after the jump! Read More

By Drew Grant 4/26/12 12:46pm

White House Correspondents' Dinner

Jimmy Kimmel talks politics (Politico.com)

Video: Jimmy Kimmel Isn’t Worried About White House Correspondents’ Dinner Because He’s Not Louis C.K. (Video)

While we like Jimmy Kimmel, insomuch as we can like a late night host who is somewhere between Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon in terms of edginess, we don’t think he’s going to make the best host for this year’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner. Especially when compared to Seth Meyerslast year…how time flies!

But perhaps it’s exactly that toothless quality that makes Mr. Kimmel such a perfect host. At least, that’s what he implied during a recent interview with Politico’s Patrick Gavin. Read More