After two years, everyone's favorite political event, the White House Correspondents' Dinner, is back - and it's coming back with a bang, because they got none other than The Daily Show host Trevor Noah signed on to be the lead entertainer of the night.

The dinner has not taken place since 2019, when it did so without an entertainer - and the President hasn't attended since 2016. This year's dinner marks the return to a beloved and time-honored tradition, reminding those in politics that if we can't come together and laugh at ourselves once a year, we're in pretty bad shape.

Of course, there is perhaps no one better suited to do that than Trevor Noah. His comedy may lean to the left, but the fact that he is an immigrant from South Africa brings a sort of outside perspective to all his material: He may have chosen a "side," but he wasn't raised in it, and you can hear in everything he does that he comes to all of his political conclusions with thought and care.

Also, he's funny as hell.

Previous iterations of the White House Correspondents' Dinner have gone down in history - perhaps none so famous as Keegan-Michael Key's appearance onstage as Barack Obama's "Anger Translator" in 2015.

This routine went down in history as one of the greatest White House Correspondents' Dinner Routines of all time.

It will also be interesting, this year, to see what President Joe Biden has to say - and how the audience response. Tensions between politicians and the press, and between ideological camps, have been growing in the US since the last Dinner. The atmostphere of this room may serve as a good litmus test as to where we are as a country: Can we laugh at our follies and missteps and pledge to do better? Or will the tension in the room prove too great?

We hope that, especially with Noah there to cut it, the former will be where we land. The White House Correspondents' Dinner will take place on April 30th this year.

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