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White House Correspondents’ Dinner is back: Expect superspreader jokes

Political Theater, Episode 248

Music producer Steve Aoki, left, talks with actor Keegan Michael Key at the Yahoo/ABC News party in the Washington Hilton before the White House correspondents' dinner, April 30, 2016.
Music producer Steve Aoki, left, talks with actor Keegan Michael Key at the Yahoo/ABC News party in the Washington Hilton before the White House correspondents' dinner, April 30, 2016. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
By Jason Dick and Niels Lesniewski
Posted April 28, 2022 at 4:28pm

For the first time since 2019, the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner is back, stepping gingerly into the COVID-19 era, awkward jokes and all.

CQ Roll Call Chief Correspondent Niels Lesniewski stops by to talk about what to expect. 

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