Looking Ahead To The White House Correspondents Dinner Hosts Of The Future

Is it already time for mostly desiccated, mostly worthless politicians to pretend to have a sense of humour about themselves by sitting in a room with a professional comedian who's making fun of them right to their mostly dumb, mostly fat faces? Yes: the annual White House Correspondents Dinner is tomorrow.

This year's fun-maker is a returning favourite: Conan O'Brien first hosted back in 1995, presumably after the phase of his career when NBC was renewing his Late Night contract on a weekly basis. Since then, everyone you think should have hosted has done it -- a pre-Senate Al Franken (1996; he'd also done it the year before O'Brien), Jon Stewart (1997), Stephen Colbert (2006), Craig Ferguson (2008), Seth Meyers (2011), Jimmy Kimmel (2012) -- with a few less predictable people thrown in for variety: Ray Romano (1998), Drew Carey (2002), Cedric the Entertainer (2005), Rich Little (2007), Wanda Sykes (2009). Jay Leno, who has literally never refused an opportunity to tell jokes in front of sentient organisms, holds the record for most chances to entertain DC, having hosted the Dinner four times. And did you know that the host of the 1988 dinner was...Yakov Smirnoff?! Because it was. (In Soviet Russia, dinner hosts you, what a country, etc.)

But who will host in the years ahead? We have a pretty good idea.

2014: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

2015: Chris Rock

2016: Will Ferrell

2017: Bill Maher

2018: Aziz Ansari

2019: Marc Maron

2020: W. Kamau Bell

2021: Sarah Silverman

2022: John Mulaney

2023: Seth MacFarlane

2024: Howard Stern

2025: Jeff Dunham

2026: Tyler Perry

2027: Seth MacFarlane (in character as Ted)

2028: Bo Burnham

2029: The late Chevy Chase (hologram)

2030: James Franco

2031: The Muppets

2032: Snooki

2033: Carson Daly