Yes, it’s true — actor Kal Penn (Dr. Kutner on Fox’s “House” as well as the stoner in “Harold & Kumar”) is taking a break from the screen to work in the White House.
Kal Penn campaigns for Obama at the University of Maryland.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Penn said he’d been offered the job of associate director of the Office of Public Liaison. His mission: “do outreach with the American public and with different organizations,” as he told EW. Full story here.
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National Review Online is tipping its hat to ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper, praising the newcomer to the beat as one who “isn’t afraid to go against the grain of the liberal consensus in pursuit of a story.” Click here for full story.
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Jay Leno says he got competing advice about how to prepare for his first White House Correspondents Dinner when Reagan was president:
“[I] was just a kid, well 30, but that’s a kid, and he’s the president and people said don’t make fun of him, and others said he’s got a great sense of humor so go ahead and make fun, and so I start throwing jokes out in both directions and the last group was right. President Reagan had a great sense of humor.”
From The Sacramento Bee, April 5: “It’s a Reno show, with Jay Leno”
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The Radio & TV Correspondents Association switched its annual dinner to fit President Obama’s schedule, according to FishbowlDC. The 65th dinner, now scheduled for Friday, June 19, at the Washington Convention Center was to have been on June 4th.
According to RTCA President Heather Dahl’s email to members, “We’re creating a spectacular evening at an exciting new venue and hope you will join us.”
The President is also expected to attend the White House Correspondents Association Dinner on May 9th.
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Sykes Promotes Her Last AlbumCheck out the WSJ profile of Wanda Sykes in the Weekend section today, which says she’s “trying out Obama jokes” for the White House Correspondents Dinner. During a show before a mostly white, middle-aged audience at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey, the WSJ reports Sykes suggested Obama should have chosen Gov. David Patterson for vice president. “Who’s going to hurt the half-black guy if you’re going to be left with the whole black, blind guy?”
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Wanda Sykes, the bawdy-humored comedian who will emcee this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner, has just landed a late-night network talk show on Fox for her often jaundiced, R-rated take on the world.
Starting this fall, Sykes — who once lived near D.C. and whose first job was with the National Security Agency — will enter the white male-dominated landscape of late-night TV talk shows, hosting her own on the Fox broadcast network. The hour-long yakker, as the trade papers like to call talk shows, will be topical, focusing on politics and pop culture and regularly featuring guests as well as spots Sykes will do outside of the studio, according to news reports on April 1 (yes, April Fool’s Day — but Fox confirmed the reports). Read more…
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