comedian, she grew up in pennsylvania, ran high school track and worked at jp morgan chase first. figured that s who a bloomberg reporter would pick. she s written for seth meyers. then wow, that big hbo special last year. right after we signed her for the dinner we found out she was going to be doing a netflix series. she s not really a political comedian by training, she s not of washington, but if 2016 taught us anything is that we should be listening to more people outside of washington. if 2017 taught us anything, it s hey, that means women. so, without further adieu, please welcome michelle wolf.
upon air force one watching this play out right now. how s it going so far? it s early time yet, most of the jokes haven t started flying. they did show maggy haberman in that video, the pulling surprise winning new york times reporter, or i should say the new york times reporter president trump says he doesn t associate with and there was a picture of him in the oval office. whose been covering him for years. you have to poke fun at that relationship of course. and i want to say to everybody stay tuned. coming up right here we re going to be hearing from our headliner comedian, the performer from the night s entertainment, michelle wolf, she s about to take on some of the toughest room in comedy. stick around you re watching msnbc coverage of the white house correspondents dinner.
. you are watching live coverage of the 2018 correspondent s dinner. i m david here in washington, d.c. we are moments away from michelle wolf, the comedian from head leaning this dinner. just a reminder this night is designed to honor the first amendment here in the united states of america. freedom of the press. and the president of the united states has decided to skip this evening. let s listen in to the president of the white house correspondents association. the first time i saw michelle wolf stand up i was like, what is with that voice. the second time i just gave in and let myself laugh. at some point as i kept watching her i thought, this woman is actually saying a lot more in between the punch lines. michelle wolf is not always a
bit. sometimes it does try this just joking defense. he ll say something horrible, something that s kind of racist, something kind of terrible, no, i m just joking. that s a permission structure for some of his supporters who don t like that to say, okay, he was just kidding, i can still support him. real quick, i want to say we re looking at reince priebus, former white house chief of staff. one thing about tonight, i mentioned it briefly, there are former and current trump administration officials in the room tonight. trump evidently has encouraged people from his staff to show up tonight. sarah huckabee sanders will be on the dais along with the president of the white house correspondents dinner and comedienne michelle wolf tonight. it seems like at least the presentation is that the president and the administration are trying to make nice tonight. what do you make of that? i just, to quickly tag back on david s comment, i think you want your racism to have a level of plausibl
agenda, i m not trying to get anything accomplished. so everyone that s here from congress, you should feel right at home. now, before we get too far a little bit about me. a lot of you might not know who i am. i am 32 years old, which is an odd age. ten years too young to host this event and 20 years to vote for roy moore. i know, he almost got elected, yeah. it was fun. it was fun. honestly, i never really thought i d be a comedian but i did take an aptitude test in 7th grade and this is 100% true. i took an appear attitude test in 7th grade and it said my best profession was a clown or mime. well i first said clown, and then everyone heard my voice, oh maybe mime.