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Comedian Matt Friend draws gasps at White House Correspondents' dinner with joke about Kristi Noem killing her dog

Comedian Matt Friend, doing a Trump impression, drew gasps from the audience at the White House Correspondents' dinner with jokes about Kristi Noem killing her puppy and a man who set himself on fire.

Comedian Matt Friend found himself facing a tough crowd during the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night, where his topical jokes about a dead puppy and self-immolation elicited audible gasps from the audience. The joke — a reference to a man who set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump's criminal trial was taking place and later died of his injuries — earned a mixed reaction of laughs, groans, and gasps from audience. In her upcoming book, Noem reportedly describes taking her 14-month-old pup Cricket — whom she calls "untrainable" and "less than worthless" — to a gravel pit and shooting her dead, per The Guardian, which obtained an early copy of No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forward.

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