Samantha Bee is proposing an alternative to this year's White House Correspondents Dinner

Comedian Samantha Bee is preparing to assemble comedians who will roast Trump on the same night as his big dinner

MATTHEW ROZSA

Comedian Samantha Bee is scheduling an alternative event to the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner — the appropriately titled “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.”

“We’re not trying to supersede it,” Bee told The New York Times on Monday. “We just want to be there in case something happens — or doesn’t happen — and ensure that we get to properly roast the president.”

According to Bee, she and her producers on the show “Full Frontal” were inspired to create the “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner” shortly after Trump was elected in November.

“We were talking out loud about whether we thought the White House Correspondents’ dinner would change during a Trump presidency, or if it would even exist,” Bee told The New York Times. “And then we thought, Why don’t we just do one, just to do it in the way that we would want it done if we were hosting it?”

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