Were afraid to book him. Anybody could do al franken just, you know, be a little pretentious. Plug your nose. Really. Thats this is all you have to do to do an al franken replied, i did grab that, teddy. I graze the teddy. So thats really easy to do. An al franken really . Is he here. Be awkward. We considered so many people. Like i said, i was like the 25th choice. Dont expect much. I wrote jokes about 5 minutes ago. I think Rachel Maddow, they tried to get Rachel Maddow from msnbc to host. Shes basically a lesbian. Stephen colbert, right. You cant tell the difference. Shes funnier than him. But no, they booked me some guy you dont know who looks like zach galifianakis. Bang. Macaulay culkin. Or as my girlfriend says, aaron paul bang, harry potter. Im tiny. Can you guys even see me . This is ridiculous. Can you see me at all . This is brutal. I make everything look huge. This is just a house car right here. This isnt even a real this is just an ipad up here. This is just some grass they picked off the stage. I know. Im 36. I look 36 from the front, from the back. I could be 12. You know, i am a pedophiles worst nightmare. Do you know what im saying . Ive caught 30 pedophiles since ive been in dc. You catch me, so i should be working for the Police Department catching pedophiles, right . My body is a booby trap. Just hang out in the playground. Just wait. You know, just. You know, just wait for some creep. They had a little boy. You want to come with me in my van to go . I dont know, mister. I dont think thats a good idea, mister. I. I thought maybe instead you want to come with me downtown. Gotcha. Gotcha. You didnt laugh at that. You are a pedophile. Cnn table horror. Gotcha. This is all set up. Youre on to catch a predator. Lock the door. Lock the door. All right, we got this guy. Hes got the pedophile glasses on to look at this guy right on the nose. You got a good look, pal, huh . Look at it. Can i try those on for a second . Look at this. You see this guy in the playground . Get your kids. Look, and i swear. Whoops. All right, all right. Clean those if you want to catch those pedophiles. Okay. There we go. You guys are like, this is a michael j. Fox rip off here with so many people. We we asked Mitch Mcconnell to do it, but he froze up. And i its you know, you know its bad when they pick a straight white guy with wrestling january six face i mean this is bottom of the barrel stuff i look like i stormed the capitol just to sell espresso sky the white guys back. This is bad. You guys are desperate, man. They actually this is true. They were going to have the very first mentally disabled black vegan host this year. But mayor eric adams was not available, so they had to. Hes at a nightclub getting Bottle Service too. True. Two on the nose. Thats fine. President biden was supposed to be here. Can we get a boo . He chose australia over. You guys can we get a bill . Oh, oh. Fox news in the back. Thank you. Sorry, dominion. Thank you. You know, its you know theres so many people not here. Theres a lot of courageous reporters in israel. Round of applause, right . Doing the lords work. Those obviously, you know, i dont think its controversial to say those tariffs, the tax were terrible or as cnn calls it, a mostly peaceful war. So. Dr. Fauci was supposed to be here, but hes busy planning the next global pandemic. So. Couldnt make it. One more fox person. Thanks a lot. Did you notice that war ended . I mean, the whole covid thing, it ended, right . Right. When ukraine was invaded. You guys know that you stopped reporting on covid. It was like done the same day russia came in that was a little suspicious. I feel like if that war didnt happen, fauci would still be on the tv right now. Youre like, dr. Fauci, its been three years. You said two weeks to flatten the curve. What i actually said was we are too weak to flatten the curve. Its not humanly possible. All right. Youre all sponsored by pfizer. Never mind. I know that wouldnt work. You guys have a lot of. I feel bad for the media. You guys have tons of competition right now. Your main competitor is teenagers on tiktok. Did you know that most people now trust tik tok to get their news . Theyre getting their news from a communist chinese app. Thats thats really sad. I like tik tok, but i think tik tok would have been a better name for a dating app for women in their late thirties. All right. Speaking of angry feminists, cnn is here. A round of applause to cnn right . We actually left 2000 seats empty on the balcony. Balcony there to commemorate cnn plus. So well just take a moment of silence. All right. I stopped. What was it was a tell a joke. Your entire news media organization. Its one big joke. Fake news, right . Fake news. We call it fake news, but so sad, nasty cnn interrupting me. So sad, so sad. All right. Ill tell a joke. Whats your moms name now . I stopped watching cnn when they had that death ticker. You remember that . That was pretty cruel. You guys were for that death ticker every single day, that it was like checking the stock market. But a fun fact about the death ticker. If you actually play it in reverse, it shows cnns ratings in real time. So. Well, ive already been canceled as a comedian. So they made a big mistake booking me. You got guys ready to start a show . We got a great show. You guys ready to start the show . The leg warmers are here right . We got cuban food at least the food is diverse. The chefs wont get canceled. We got cuban food from miami. We got florida stone crab. And the is going all night. Plus, we have a very special speed speaking guest. Later, a keynote speaker. I think youre going to like this guys actually funny and were going to do a quick word from our sponsor. That guys around the block for coming out. Thank you guys so much. Hi, everyone. Its senator Chuck Schumer. And im really sorry i couldnt be there with you. My nearest and dearest friends, the Washington Press corps. Those of you who know Chuck Schumer know how much respect and admiration i have for journalists. Most importantly, schumer stories. But really the work you do is vital to our country and our democracy. Its the very bedrock on which this nation is built. We need this bedrock now more than ever before, the press informs it. Establish is truth from fiction. It keeps us and government in check. It is a guardrail for the country has been since the founding of the republic, keeping us from swerving off the road. Were going over a cliff when the press tells the truth, when the press speaks truth to power, when the press does its job, our country is strong. So in this room, everyone, i salute you. The fact that you, the free press, are always here gives me the solace that the greatness of our democracy, even in these troubled times, will ultimately prevail. Have a drink for me tonight. Too many i need you all sharp. Inevitable press Conference Tomorrow morning. Please welcome representing cnn arts dinner chair noel gray. Good evening, everyone. Nice to see you all so clearly the article doesnt censor free speech and its a good thing im submitting my Resignation Letter this evening. So thanks all for coming. Welcome to the 2023 radio and Television CorrespondentsAssociation Dinner and awards. Its great to see everyone here tonight and to be back at the anthem again for another amazing event this year. Miami vice style as an homage to my hometown, miami, florida, a a lovable but messed up place. For those of you who dont know me, my name is noah graham, the dinner chair of this years event. And i had the pleasure of serving as chair of the arts last year, representing cnn, which is why i am this years dinner chair, even though i technically left news and cnn three weeks ago, a place ive called home and love for a very long time, and moved to the other side of news where i now represent dc fire and ems as their chief communications officer. But that doesnt mean that people on the other side cant celebrate a free press and honor some amazing journalists like were here to do tonight. So thank you, everybody, who responds for comment, who was also here tonight. I want to welcome you all and congratulate the winners. Thank our sponsors and introduce you all to the executive committee and our guests here this evening. Joining us on the dais from the executive committee is our host and actor who you just met. And comedian tyler fisher, whos supposed to be sitting next to Jerry Halperin over there. So before they poisoned your food, go have a seat next to eric and rtc chair Jared Halperin of fox news radio. Vice chair ryan nobles of nbc news. Were doing this live. We changed it up a little bit bad producing who else we have paul brown of cspan. Ben siegel of abc who came back for another session. Claudio gonzalez of npr and Nate NathanielNathan Knepper of scripps news. Everybody knows nate. Not newsy anymore. Scripps news. Ladies and gentlemen, scripps news. Also joining us on the dais this evening, senate, radiotv gallery director mike masterson. House radiotv gallery director olga ramirez. Kornacki. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer. Press secretary greasy hanger. Senate minority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Broadcast Media Advisor kaylee grav bomb and House Minority leader, director of communications kristy stephenson. Is that everybody . Did i forget anybody now . Okay, good. Thank you. Id like to thank our sponsors for this evening. Scripps news who are helping us keep the bars open later tonight. Ridgewell is for bringing you the elevated menu without a higher cost. Thank you very much ridgewell for all your work and vsi ariel for that amazing and legal drone footage from inside. This is very tricky flight restricted zone and thank you to alex rosen and jeff ricker for that amazing cold open, which, by the way, for any miami vice fans was edited frame for frame. So the original miami vice intro and that is true and thank you to congressman burchett and moskowitz for your amazing comedic performance. My wife maybe cut out all the ufo references and that. So apologies to the disclosure supporters here tonight are oh were are we. Yes to my amazing wife kristen holmes. Thank you for putting up with me. Doing two jobs the past few weeks. I promise i will start cleaning the house again tomorrow and i know you will hold me accountable. We have a great show for you tonight. Tyler fisher oal guy and the legwarmers and unbelievable ball eighties cover band as well as dj ghost who will be spinning on the stage and then upstairs are happy hour excuse me our late night after party will go until 1 a. M. Tonight, but before we start, its a tradition. I dont have a drink. Can someone bring me a drink, please . It is a tradition for the Dinner Committee chair to offer a toast. Thank you, mark. Its to offer a toast to congress. So lets all raise our glass to the 118th congress. Democracy, as we have seen, is not always the easiest form of government, but our Congress Remains a shining example of giving the people government access to the bodies during the governing. I look no further than the scrums of microphones and cameras that surround the office of the speaker or many, many votes for speaker. The plaza outside the capitol, allowing the electorate to see not just what their government is doing or not doing, but also how its done. The process stories, if you will. So heres to the 118th congress. May you continue to open your halls to microphones and cameras and set an example for press freedom and to the men and women of the press. As my people say, look, i am thank you. You can keep the lights. Here to introduce the joan s baron award, please welcome back your host, tyler fisher. Thank you very much. The joan esperon award recognizes excellence in washington based congressional or political reporting in the past year. The award honors the memory of joan barone, a cbs producer known for her tenacity, detailed memory and relentless pursuit of answers from politicians. Thanks for not heckling me. During the memorial. Thank you, sir. Since i started speaking publicly, we told my crisis at that side during the war that i am doing this same. I spent almost 5 hours by phone. This group of people here in the capitol, not only myself, but my colleagues as well. The mere breach of the capitol by our citizens is incomprehensible to me. Here to present the 2022 boren award, please welcome longtime nbc journalist pete williams. Well, im delighted to be here to present this award to the winners this year. My former colleagues from nbc, frank thorp and sara mims of nbc news. This award honors their multimedia project, which was called faces of the investigation how the house january Six Committees final report came to be. And i think youll find that their work provides an intimate account of the anguish and bravery demonstrated by some of those who were caught up in the drama of the capitol riot and the historic congressional hearings that followed. At the heart of this project are some riveting photographs taken by your colleague frank thorp. These days. Obviously photographer can choose from hundreds of highly automated digital cameras that do just about everything, but press the shutter. But frank did not take the easy way out. He went decidedly old school, employing black and white sheets, film and a camera that was state of the art. In 1912, he developed the images himself, working in a darkroom that had about the same freedom of movement as a window seat in an Airline Economy class plane. But using that Old Fashioned combination required time and patience. The revealing and intimate results, though, are clearly worth it. There is a reason the National Gallery of art asked for one of franks january six photos for its permanent collection. They may be still photographs. They may be still photographs, but they are moving pictures. Sara combined those photos and the interviews that frank conducted to write eloquent descriptions of what those people experience and their work reveals the dignity and humanity of people caught up in the capitol riot and its aftermath. Nbc news considered it a sterling example of how the broadcast and digital teams can Work Together and obviously so did the judges. So its my pleasure to present the award to this years winner of the jones, chauncey steen barone award, frank thorp, and sara mills. Oh, my. Got to stand up for. Oh, you are standing. Sorry. Oh, man. Thank you so much. Over here with chris. First of all, thank you so much to pete. He literally helped install the darkroom at my house that i use to develop all the star feed for this piece. Youre my hero. My journalistic guiding light, and someone i try to emulate every day. Your friendship and guidance led me to right here. Thank you. This piece would not exist if it were not for the people who trusted me to stick that 1948 film camera in their faces and then agreed to sit down and talk to me about one of the most traumatic, life altering experience they have ever encountered. Im particularly grateful to the officers who told their story for the piece, some literally sitting in the exact same place where they were assaulted while protecting the capitol. This piece became a confluence of two things im particularly passionate about telling stories in a visually different shading way and the belief that facing and processing trauma is incredibly important. We, as journalists cannot turn our backs on this sometimes traumatic events we are entrusted to cover, and we cannot also turn our backs on the need to do the work to admit how those affect those events, affect us. The time can heal many wounds, but as time passes, many try to paper over how deeply shocking and traumatic january six was, not only for the country, but for the people who experienced it firsthand. The journalism that we all do helps make sure the record reflects the reality. Its my hope. Thank you. Its my hope that this piece helps make sure the voices of those affected by the attack on the capitol and those who stepped up to describe the efforts to divert the 2020 Election Results remain prominent in the pages of history. Sarah mims, as pete said, wrote the words in this case turning hours of interviews into a cohesive and compelling narrative that beautifully accompanied the images. And amanda terkel and ginger gibson guided the piece to publication. The piece is the culmination of over seven months of work and would not have been possible without the vision and trust that both zaka arts and chelsea staff and the nbc news Photo Department had to create had to create such a beautiful presentation and something very different than what we normally do at nbc. Thank you to Janelle Rodriguez and betsy hussey. Corona for taking very little convincing to make this video into into a video that theyd air and nick lerman for culling through hundreds of images and editing that video. His creativity and vision made this happen. I would not be here without we would not be here with if it were not for our health team at nbc news. Garrett hey, ryan nobles, julie sirkin, olivia talley, rebecca kaplan, kyle stewart, kates angeles seahawks for scott lang and carrie dann, who leads us all along with Ted Strickland and chloe aaron spark. When i started on capitol hill in 2011, nbc only had four people on the hill. And as weve grown this team consistently crushes it every day, leading the pack and inspiring me to push myself and think outside the box and so grateful for you. I also want to give a special shout out to hayley talbot, who ran coverage for the january Six Committee for us back then. Shes now at cnn and who also shared her story for the piece. Im very grateful for you as well. Thank you. To the house and senate. To the house and senate, radio and Television Gallery for trying to keep us out of trouble, trying and the stills gallery for accommodating me with all my ridiculous cameras, my father and stepmother are here. You taught me