--- --- # President Obama Attends the Annual White House Correspondents' Dinner by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Updated: Dec 15, 2023 2:28 AM UTCPublished: Apr 25, 2015 8:02 PM UTC by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Updated: Dec 15, 2023 2:28 AM UTCPublished: Apr 25, 2015 8:02 PM UTC President Obama was joined on Saturday night by a cadre of celebrities and journalists for the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It’s the 101st year of the dinner, and the President was sure to crack some wise ones. Cecily Strong of _Saturday Night Live_ was hosting the evening. It’s a night for the President to make fun of his staunchest rivals, and take some heat himself from the host. Last year, he made fun of House Speaker John Boehner’s tan, the gridlock in Congress and Fox News. “The Koch brothers bought a table here this evening but they used a shadowy right-wing organization as a front. Good evening, Fox News,” Obama joked last year. **_Read more_**_:_ [_Comedian-in-Chief Barack Obama Hosts White House Dinner_](http://time.com/86966/white-house-dinner-barack-obama-joel-mchale/) This year, expect anything from the Republican presidential candidates to the media to be fair game for friendly mockery. White House Correspondents' Dinner: President Obama to Attend ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3835674/white-house-correspondents-dinner-obama-whcd/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3835674/white-house-correspondents-dinner-obama-whcd/"},"headline":"President Obama Attends the Annual White House Correspondents' Dinner","datePublished":"2015-04-25T20:02:53.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-15T02:28:07.000Z","description":"Cecily Strong from Saturday Night Live hosts this year","url":"https://time.com/3835674/white-house-correspondents-dinner-obama-whcd/","keywords":["White House","Barack Obama","White House Correspondents Dinner"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3835674/white-house-correspondents-dinner-obama-whcd/","name":"President Obama Attends the Annual White House Correspondents' Dinner"}}]}] ```