When the White House Correspondents' Association dinner returns on April 30, Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, will be the entertainer.

After a two-year hiatus, the dinners for 2020 and 2021 have been canceled due to Covid's illness.

President Joe Biden is expected to attend the dinner, as he has done in the past, until President Donald Trump boycotted it during his four years in office. This year's dinner "will be the WHCA’s first since 2019 and offer the first opportunity since 2016 for the press and the president to share a few laughs for a good cause," the WHCA said in announcing Noah.

This year, Noah will also host the Grammys, and he is currently on a comedy tour called Back to Abnormal.

“Trevor is an incredible talent who keeps us laughing — and thinking — four nights a week,” Steve Portnoy, the president of the WHCA, said in a statement. “We can’t wait for him to help bring our 100-year Washington tradition ‘Back to Abnormal.’

While the event continues to attract Washington's media and political insiders even without Trump, Hollywood personalities, who were a mainstay when President Barack Obama attended, stayed absent in large numbers. Given Biden's support from the business in 2020 and Noah's participation, there may be more Hollywood celebrities this year.

In 2019, the last supper was hosted by historian Ron Chernow rather than an entertainer. Performing artist Michelle Wolf's biting comic material, which was directed at several officials of the Trump administration who were in attendance the previous year, sparked considerable controversy.

The performance of the WHCA entertainer can also be a career highlight, as Stephen Colbert did when he headlined the show in 2006. Colbert, who was there as a conservative host on The Colbert Report, conducted a roast of then-President George W. Bush. The crowd's reaction was mixed to negative at best, but it went viral online and received praise from a number of critics. The WHCA chose Rich Little as their performer the next year, avoiding any controversy.

This year's event will be produced by Bob Bain Productions. The WHCA's activities, as well as journalistic scholarships and awards, are funded by the proceeds. Because it is televised on major cable networks and, like in Hollywood, incorporates a red carpet, the dinner, which was first held in 1921, is the most well-known of Washington's media-political meetings.