John Oliver: WHCD 'ludicrous'

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John Oliver of “The Daily Show” thinks the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and all of the festivities that surround it are just plain silly.

"The entire thing is completely ludicrous...in every possible sense, this is a ludicrous weekend," he told POLITICO at MSNBC’s after-party following Saturday’s dinner. "Everything is stupid about this...you have Eric Cantor and Shaquille O'Neal in the same room. I don't know what is more stupid than that. I hope there is some financial value in raising money for good things. I'm not sure if there's any other value, no."

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Nonetheless, Oliver had nice things to say about the dinner speeches given by President Barack Obama and comedian Conan O’Brien.

"I thought they were both very funny,” he said. “They were both very good under the awful circumstances of that dinner...comedy generally does not work in that atmosphere. But they both did very well...they made people laugh, that is literally the only target."

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