--- title: White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2016: Watch Live Stream description: Watch the last White House correspondents’ dinner of Barack Obama's presidency unfold live, starting around 7:30 p.m. Saturday canonical: https://time.com/4313497/watch-live-stream-online-2016-white-house-correspondents-dinner/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-30T19:50:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T17:10:12.240Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: The 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner og:description: The dinner is the last of Obama's presidency og:url: https://time.com/4313497/watch-live-stream-online-2016-white-house-correspondents-dinner/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac1ef06f1aff9bb5/69889157bc6cfcf9283dccbb/correspondents-dinner.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: Barack Obama Addresses White House Correspondents Dinner og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: The 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner twitter:description: The dinner is the last of Obama's presidency twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac1ef06f1aff9bb5/69889157bc6cfcf9283dccbb/correspondents-dinner.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: President Obama and Larry Wilmore at the White House Correspondents' Dinner > Sponsored content. 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President Barack Obama speaks at last year's White House Correspondent's Association Gala on April 25, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Apr 30, 2016 7:50 PM UTC The annual White House correspondents’ dinner—the [last of Barack Obama’s presidency](http://time.com/4312654/white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-obama-jokes/?xid=homepage)—will take place Saturday night. As he does every year, Obama will speak and tell jokes. Comedian Larry Wilmore will host the event, and [he ](http://time.com/4152561/larry-wilmore-white-house-correspondents-dinner-barack-obama/)[has said he’s looking forward](http://time.com/4152561/larry-wilmore-white-house-correspondents-dinner-barack-obama/) to taking on the challenge of hosting Obama’s last dinner and using the 2016 presidential race as comedic inspiration. Wilmore and other celebrities have also predicted that Republican frontrunner Donald Trump will be the [subject of many of the evening’s jokes](http://time.com/4313312/white-house-correspondents-dinner-celebrities-donald-trump/). 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