Colin Jost Wins Over Tough White House Correspondents Dinner Crowd With Praise for ‘Decent’ Biden – Variety

<br>                                By  <a class="c-link  lrv-a-unstyle-link" href="https://variety.com/author/brian-steinberg/"             >   Brian Steinberg</a>                             <br>Senior TV Editor<br>    You had to hold on &#8217;til the end.<br>  &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; comedian <a  href="https://variety.com/t/colin-jost/"  id="auto-tag_colin-jost"  data-tag="colin-jost"  >Colin Jost</a> delivered a mixed bag of Trump zingers, media jokes and Biden age wisecracks in front of a demanding crowd Saturday at the annual <a  href="https://variety.com/t/white-house-correspondents-dinner/"  id="auto-tag_white-house-correspondents-dinner"  data-tag="white-house-correspondents-dinner"  >White House Correspondents Dinner</a>, but it took him until the last of his remarks to fully charm the assemblage of journalists and politicos who came to hear him roast the President and the Washington press corps.<br>    Jost finished his remarks by telling President <a  href="https://variety.com/t/joe-biden/"  id="auto-tag_joe-biden"  data-tag="joe-biden"  >Joe Biden</a> about his 95-year-old grandfather, a longtime fireman in Staten Island, N.Y, who voted Democrat in the 2020 presidential election even though that borough of New York City is known to favor Republicans.   <div class="widget widget_cxense"> <section class="cxense-widget //">  <div class="cxense-widget-div lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-height-100p lrv-a-wrapper"  id="cx-mid-article" data-widget_id="8a00c858b5dc9bbc6730de1cd462cba7848c347c"></div> </section> </div><br>     &#8220;He voted for you, and the reason that he voted for you is because you&#8217;re a decent man,&#8221; Jost told Biden. &#8220;My grandpa voted for decency and decency is why we&#8217;re all here tonight.&#8221;     <div class="admz" id="adm-inline-article-ad-1">                     <div class="adma boomerang" data-device="Desktop" data-width="300">                  <div style="min-width:50px;min-height:75px;"   class="pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text"   data-priority="10" >    <div id="gpt-variety-article-mid-article-uid0"      class="adw-300 adh-250" data-is-adhesion-ad="">         <script type="application/javascript">
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