Cecily Strong crushes it at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Cory Doctorow at 2:43 am Mon, Apr 27, 2015. SHARE TWEET STUMBLE COMMENTS. <iframe class="embedly-embed"
"Saturday Night Live" cast member Cecily Strong was the host of the 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C., and she brought down the house with jokes about women's rights, the 2016 candidates and President Barack Obama.
Comedian Cecily Strong joked that there is only one law enforcement agency in America that would face consequences if a black man were shot at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. That agency, Strong
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau responded to critics of a speech he gave earlier this month who alleged he blamed the victims – his fellow cartoonists – for the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. In an interview with Chuck Todd airing on Sunday's Meet the Press,
"She's the entertainment tonight," the House freshman exclaims. The woman Dingell was unwittingly conversing with was Cecily Strong, of "Saturday Night Live" fame. Strong is the entertainer at Saturday's Correspondents' dinner at the Washington Hilton.