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White House correspondents’ dinner: Biden jokes about return to near-normal

After a two-year pandemic delay, the dinner returned with a comedy routine from Trevor Noah and celebrity cameos by Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson.

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Updated April 30, 2022 at 11:54 p.m. EDT|Published April 30, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT
President Biden on April 30 gave a heartfelt speech at the 2022 White House correspondents’ dinner. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: Alexander Drago/Reuters/The Washington Post)
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Washington’s media and political elite partied like it was 2019 on Saturday at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner, the traditionally glitzy spring gala that staggered back to life after a pandemic-induced two-year hiatus.

Despite the continuing specter of the coronavirus, the event once again had all its usual trappings and excesses: a tuxedoed-and-begowned throng of insiders, a smattering of celebrities, an appearance by the president and a big-name comedian to make fun of them and it.