Michelle Wolf Has No Regrets About Her Correspondents’ Dinner Speech: ‘I Wouldn’t Change a Single Word’

May 1, 2018 Black Truth News Entertainment, Interviews, Politics, Recent Posts

Wolf told the news organization that she suspects she may have gotten the gig because she is a woman, and the association thought she would play it safe.

“I don’t know maybe I’m projecting this, but I think sometimes they look at a woman and they think ‘Oh, she’ll be nice,’ and if you’ve seen any of my comedy you know that I don’t–I’m not,” she said. “I don’t pull punches. I’m not afraid to talk about things.”

“I knew what I was doing going in,” Wolf continued. “I wanted to do something different. I didn’t want to cater to the room. I wanted to cater to the outside audience, and not betray my brand of comedy.”

Margaret Talev, the White House Correspondents’ Association president, said that Wolf’s commentary was not in line with the association’s mission. “Last night’s program was meant to offer a unifying message about our common commitment to a vigorous and free press while honoring civility, great reporting and scholarship winners, not to divide people,” Talev said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the entertainer’s monologue was not in the spirit of that mission.”

President Donald Trump also had a few words about Wolf’s routine, claiming she “totally bombed,” as well as the dinner, which he has not attended as president.

In her speech, Wolf took jabs at White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, including comparing her to Ann Dowd’s character in The Handmaid’s Tale.

“I love you as Aunt Lydia,” she told Sanders. “Every time Sarah steps up to the podium, I’m not really sure what we’re going to get … a press briefing, a bunch of lies, or divided into softball teams. It’s shirts and skins, and this time don’t be such a little bitch, Jim Acosta!’”