Michelle Wolf designed her White House Correspondents' Dinner jokes for TV viewers, not attendees

GQ

"I’m expecting it to not play well in the room," she says of her performance Saturday before a Trump-free gathering of the White House press and their celebrity guests. She adds: "I’m not so much worried about any of the people—including Trump—that I’m telling jokes about. I’m more worried that the jokes go over well. And I’m not even talking about in the room; I’m talking about when people watch it on TV and are like, 'Oh, that’s funny.'"

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