article_snippet.sent: (CNN)C-SPAN's live telecast of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday night, hosted by Cecily Strong of "Saturday Night Live," was not Strong's finest hour, though the entire affair seemed like five of C-SPAN's longest hours.
article_snippet.sent: More than 2,000 credentialed White House journalists and their mostly celebrity guests convened for the occasion.
article_snippet.sent: And then came Cecily Strong, with a sly opening line referring not only to Cecily Strong appearance as one of the few female guest speakers at the correspondents' dinner, but to the upcoming 2016 presidential election.
article_snippet.sent: Feels right," Cecily Strong said, "to have a woman following Obama.
article_snippet.sent: Cecily Strong even got "oohs" when Cecily Strong targets were outside the room, as when Cecily Strong said, noting how Obama has aged visibly in office, "Your hair is so white now, "Your hair can talk back to the police.
article_snippet.sent: Cecily Strong came on after not only the dinner service and Obama, but after scholarship awards, correspondent awards and tributes and other bits of official business.
article_snippet.sent: Tea Leoni, Ivanka Trump, Larry Wilmore, Jane Pauley.
highlights_snippet.sent: David Bianculli: Correspondents' dinner, and Cecily Strong as host, were mostly weak, but Obama had some funny zingers .
  