Comedy is incompatible with leftism. For evidence of this maxim, one need look no further than the most recent iteration of the White House Correspondents’ dinner.
Since the early 1980s, it has been almost standard operating procedure for a comedian to provide the night’s entertainment, often by roasting the sitting president and his administration. This year, the task fell to “Saturday Night Live” writer and co-host of the show’s “Weekend Update” segment Colin Jost.
Sitting just feet away from Jost was perhaps the easiest U.S. president to roast since Jimmy Carter, but the SNL host spent the lion’s share of his time really stretching the definition of “joke” with cracks about Trump, prominent Republicans, and conservative-leaning media outlets.
He spent almost as much time hunching his
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