"Most nights I come out here and make jokes about the news from Washington," Stephen Colbert said on Monday's Late Show. "Well, tonight, the news from Washington is about jokes, who can tell them and who can take them." Michelle Wolf "did not pull any punches" at Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner, roasting the Trump administration and the media, he said. "And you know who got mad? The administration and the media."
Colbert found the media's criticism harder to stomach. "Look, you didn't like it?" he asked the White House Correspondents' Association. "You have that right. Don't invite her back again. But grow a pair." He brought out an expert to weigh in, his Colbert Report character, Stephen Colbert, who hosted the WHCD in 2006. "This is the correspondents' dinner, celebrating freedom of speech — you can't just say whatever you want," the Colbert character said. "You don't go to a funeral and say exactly what you thought of the person. And what is the annual correspondents' dinner but a funeral for the independent press?"
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