From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, May 1st.

For journalists who cover national politics, this isn't just May Day, and it isn't any old Monday. It's the Monday after the annual

White House Correspondence dinner where the Washington Press Corps and the president come together to

eat, drink, and make fun of each other. A lot of ways this dinner sums up my first two years

in office. I'll talk for 10 minutes, take zero

questions, and cheerfully walk away. That, of course, was President Biden from his White

House correspondent's dinner remarks. We'll play several excerpts in this segment from Biden

and the evening's headliner comedian Roy Wood Jr. from The Daily Show.

The untouchable Tucker Carlson is out of a job. Yeah. Okay. Some people celebrate it.

But to Tucker's staff, I want you to know that I know what you're feeling. I work at the

Daily Show. So I, too, have been blindsided by the sudden departure of the host of a fake news program.

President Biden, for his part, celebrated the free press as he celebrated his own longevity.

After all, I believe in the First Amendment.

Not just because my good friend Jimmy Madison wrote it.

Roy Wood Jr. also celebrated Biden's longevity. We should be inspired by the events in France.

They rioted when the retirement age went up two years to 64.

They rioted because they didn't want to work till 64.

Meanwhile in America, we have an 80-year-old man begging us for four more years of work.

Begging.

Begging.

And they also both got serious about journalists being killed or taken prisoner

and about the importance of local journalism.

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