Comedy Central’s funniest roast masters are heading to the nation’s capital on Friday for a two-hour laugh-out-loud Hillary Clinton fundraiser.
The “evening of comedy” includes big names: Amy Schumer, Jeff Ross, Andy Kindler, and Rachel Feinstein, as well as “other special guests,” according to the invite.
Minnesota senator and “Saturday Night Live” alum Al Franken is emceeing the night.
Tickets for the Clinton comedy fest, held in downtown D.C., start at $500. For a cool $1,000 you can get reserved seats. Those contributing $2,700 get “preferred seating.” Contributors who donate or raise $25,000 get to “co-host” a reception with Sen. Franken.
The event starts Friday, September 23, at 5:00 p.m. ET and goes until 7:30 p.m. and will be hosted by Democratic superlobbyist Heather Podesta and filmmaker Stephen Kessler, whose director credits include the 1997 comedy “Vegas Vacation.“
Now the big question, of course: Who will they be roasting?
We’ll give you one hint. His last name rhymes with “dump” — which, come to think of it, will be kinda what they’ll be doing.
Earlier this month, Barbra Streisand mocked the GOP nominee with a tweaked rendition of “Send in the Clowns” at a New York City LGBT fundraiser for Clinton.
The new version included this stanza:
“Is he that rich? Maybe he’s poor? ‘Til he reveals his returns Who can be sure? Who needs this clown?”
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5. "So let's take a look at what he has done. He's written a lot of books about business -- they all seem to end at Chapter 11," Clinton said in a speech Monday, drawing huge applause from her supporters.
Politico national politics reporter Eli Stokols told TheWrap that this is a crafty approach, but it could get old.
“It’s the kind of line that is good the first time because it has a ring to it, it’s kind of clever and she’s sort of saying something with a wink and a nod,” Stokols Said.
“She’s going to make to is to redefine him not as a private entrepreneurial success, but as more of a poster child for some of the bad business excesses. It’s a really interesting strategy,” University of Southern California clinical professor of communications Gordon Stables told TheWrap.
4. “Just like he shouldn’t have his finger on the button, he shouldn’t have his hands on our economy,” Clinton said referring to Trump’s foreign policy ideas and his economic proposals.
“It’s about his character… she obviously wanted to highlight that there is something about his disposition or his temperament that basically says, ‘he doesn’t have the patience or wisdom or character to occupy the kind of crisis in the White House,’” Stables said.
3. “I had my researchers and my speech writers send me information” on Trump “and then I’d say, ‘Really? He really said that?’ And they’d send me all the background and the video clip,” Clinton said.
“I actually thought that was the most effective thing that you heard from her in terms of articulating this, because it personalizes it, it conveys that she’s someone who is a real person,” Stokols said. "It’s something that some voters will be able to relate to personally and it seemed convincing.”
2. "I have this old-fashioned idea that if you're running for president, you should say what you want to do and how you'll get it done”
Stables feels that she could be looking to reach Bernie Sanders supporters that still feel frustrated.
“There are voters with a different economic critique… there is something they don’t like with the way Trump did business and she’s going directly at it,” he said.
1. "The Chamber of Commerce and labor unions, Mitt Romney and Elizabeth Warren, economists on the right and the left and the center, all agree: Trump would throw us back into recession," Clinton said.
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“Clinton is defining the campaign on her terms… she’s positioning herself to make the argument she’s going to make in November. Trump is still fighting to define and differentiate what to say. He ran a very smart campaign to defeat the other Republican primary competitors,” Stables said.