Larry Wilmore Is Your 2016 WHCA Dinner Host

And Colby Itkowitz called it.

The White House Correspondents’ Association has announced Larry Wilmore, host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore as the host of the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, taking place on April 30, 2016.

“Larry’s edgy, even provocative, brand of humor means he’s certainly up to the task of skewering politicians of all ideological stripes, and we don’t expect the nation’s news media to escape unscathed, either,” said WHCA president and WSJ White House correspondent Carol Lee in a statement.

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