It’s like, She made fun of a woman, it must be about how she looks.
“I make sure all my jokes about women are about their abilities and people sometimes can’t wrap their heads around that fact. Put Dinner to rest, or start over!- Donald J. The filthy “comedian” totally bombed (couldn’t even deliver her lines-much like the Seth Meyers weak performance). The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a failure last year, but this year was an embarrassment to everyone associated with it. Andrea Mitchell, the veteran NBC News correspondent, demanded Wolf apologise to Sanders and others “grossly insulted” by her speech, while MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski tweeted: “Watching a wife and mother be humiliated on national television for her looks is deplorable.” All of which Wolf finds baffling because, she says, she didn’t make fun of any woman’s appearance. Executives at CBS News threatened to boycott the dinner in future, Trump declared the “filthy” comedian had “bombed”, and Sean Spicer denounced her speech as “a disgrace”. “Unfortunately,” tweeted a New York Times journalist, “I don’t think we advanced the cause of journalism tonight.” The president of the WHCA released a statement regretting that “the entertainer’s monologue was not in the spirit” of the group’s mission. She burns facts, and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye.” The room audibly gasped. I love you as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid’s Tale,” Wolf told Trump’s press secretary, sitting just feet away, before adding, “I actually really like Sarah. She’s done nothing to satisfy women, so I guess, like father, like daughter.”īut it was the jokes about Sarah Huckabee Sanders that caused the greatest uproar. You know, you’ve got to get that baby out of there.” Of the president’s daughter: “She was supposed to be an advocate for women, but it turns out she’s about as helpful to women as an empty box of tampons. He thinks abortion is murder, which, first of all, don’t knock it till you try it. Wolf thinks she was booked because the mood of the #MeToo movement demanded a female host, and the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) naively assumed: “Oh, she’ll be nice.” As Wolf joked in her speech, “They were like, a woman’s probably not going to jerk off in front of anyone, right?” With hindsight, they might have found that preferable.Īn early line went: “ Mike Pence is very anti-choice. Tradition holds that the correspondents’ dinner host delivers a “roast”, a peculiarly American tradition whose closest analogy in British culture would be a best man’s wedding speech, minus the mutual affection. In standup, you tell a joke and people laugh or they don’t. When I tell her that pretty much everyone I know has asked me to congratulate her on the performance, she thanks me but couldn’t appear to care less when I ask how she felt after running 50 miles, she says: “Tired.” Although not unfriendly, the message feels clear: we aren’t here to make friends, but to work. She smiles a lot, but there is the same faintly dangerous air of menace that electrified her correspondents’ dinner performance. She had a joke in her HBO routine about inhaling helium only to discover her voice remained entirely unaltered, but apparently this was absolutely true. The cartoonish voice is unmistakable, however, simultaneously shrill and rasping. If her comic persona is mildly awkward, in person she is unexpectedly glamorous – a sleek, feline column of New York sass topped with a corkscrew mane, more Debra Messing than the “grownup orphan Annie” character Wolf used to play for Seth Meyers. We meet three weeks later, in the New York offices of Netflix. Like many people in Britain, I’d never seen Wolf before she got to her feet in Washington and caused a global sensation. “I was, like, I’m going to do what I want to do for this dinner.”Ġ2:36 Comedian Michelle Wolf stuns media with attack on Trump's team - video So when her agent called her in March with an invitation to host the White House correspondents’ dinner, the 32-year-old wasn’t nervous.
In 2016, she was nominated for best newcomer at the Edinburgh festival, and joined Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show last year she made her HBO debut with a standup show called Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady, and signed a deal with Netflix to develop her own show. Wolf worked the New York comedy club circuit hard, and within 18 months was a fixture on Late Night With Seth Meyers. You don’t get another opportunity to do it, so you might as well get what you want out of it.” I think it’s good to be very selfish and put yourself first, and as women we’re never really taught that. You don’t want to hurt anyone along the way, but you have to be selfishly on your agenda, and let people know what you want and that you’re going to go after it. But I was like, No, you have to work for what you want. “I couldn’t believe I went through with it.
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