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

By Drew Grant 2/21/12 5:25pm

celebrities and drugs

David Cross (Getty Images)

David Cross Only Did a Little Bit of Cocaine at Obama’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner

It would be hypocritical for us to wag a finger at David Cross for divulging to Playboy that he had snorted “a granule” of cocaine during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2009, because who hasn’t just fallen face-first into mind-altering substances during a celebrity-filled function before? It happens!

However, we do take issue with how self-righteous Mr. Cross–last seen slamming a producer for being the human embodiment of a negative Jewish stereotype–gets whenever talking about politics or narcotics. Combine the two, and it’s almost like listening to the Bizarro Glenn Beck. Read More

By Reid Pillifant 5/03/10 8:19pm

When Alex Met Donald

Filmmaker Alex Gibney has a post on his Atlantic page about what should have been a very awkward encounter with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld–who he accused of sanctioning torture in his documentary Taxi to the Dark Side–at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

But Mr. Rumsfeld was in a good mood, so he smiled and Read More