TV Academy members got an early look at Saturday night’s second ever Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 26, thanks to an Emmy event for “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” held in West Hollywood.With a podium where attendees could hold their own non-existent White House press briefing, TBS offered up a simulcast of the dinner as it was filmed in Washington, D.C., making its bid for the awards-worthiness of the event, yes, but also Bee and “Full Frontal” in general.The Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was first held in 2017, opposite the traditional White House Correspondents’ Dinner and organized as a way to roast President Trump as prior presidents had been roasted in years prior.
Bee and TBS redoubled their efforts in 2019, announcing another event in order to support the First Amendment.“I vowed never to host a Nwhcd ever again,” Bee said in a February statement,
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