 So I spend the next few weeks trying to figure out whether angering a nation of 44 million people is a fireable offense. It turns out the answer is not exactly. I don't get fired, but I stop getting assigned any big speeches. And then finally, at the end of April, there's a big speech they have to assign me. It's the White House Correspondents' Dinner. That's the big night of presidential joke-telling each year. And at that time in my White House career, I'm like our token funny person.