It looks like Barack Obama is giving more and more of his
stand-up roast speeches at formal dinners. His latest one at the TV and Radio Correspondents was as hilarious as the one he gave at the White House Correspondents dinner. One of this best joke –
to the people who accuse me of empathy, I completely understand what you feel – is a classic nuanced one. Of course, it doesn’t help that he often laughs at his own jokes which is not a good sign of a good comic. Of course, John Hodgman
did it much better than Wanda Sykes.