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Salon
Politics
Kelly McClure

WH correspondents’ dinner highlights

During Saturday's star-studded White House correspondents' association dinner, President Joe Biden went joke for joke with comedian host, Roy Wood Jr., setting an example for the importance of maintaining a good sense of humor amidst chaos and turmoil.

In the world of politics, mud will sling and heads will roll. If you can smile and laugh while ducking and weaving, you've got a jump on the opposition. And in Biden's case, wise-cracks made during points of levity at the event actually landed, which is so often not the case when Republicans fumble for shtick at their own events — gatherings equivalent to one big joke with the punchline somehow always ending up the "F-Slur."

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