After the controversy over Michelle Wolf’s hosting, the White House White House Correspondents Association decided to take the next press dinner a little more seriously.
WHCA President Olivier Knox announced Monday that biography writer Ron Chernow will be the next host of the yearly Washington, D.C., event.
The extremely safe and uncontroversial, if not boring, pick was touted by Knox as a notable historian.
The White House Correspondents' Association is shelving its tradition of having a comedian roast the president and press corps at its annual fundraising dinner. Instead, the famed author Ron Chernow will speak at the 2019 White House Correspondents' Dinner https://t.co/nJiut324nR
— CNN (@CNN) November 19, 2018
“I’m delighted that Ron will share his lively, deeply researched perspectives on American politics and history at the 2019 White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” Knox said in a statement, Mediaite reported. As we celebrate the importance of a free and independent news media to the health of the republic, I look forward to hearing Ron place this unusual moment in the context of American history.”
Chernow is quite the retreat from the last host, Wolf, a former Netflix show host who tested the comedic limits of the 2018 WHCD. Wolf’s most notable joke of the evening came at the expense of Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders who Wolf claimed has a strong pension for lying.
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