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SNL castmember skewers Hillary Clinton, Obama and Republican hopefuls
Twenty-minute speech poked fun at BuzzFeed, Brian Williams scandal
Jokes touched on police brutality and Secret Service security lapses

By Christopher Brennan For Dailymail.com

Published: 01:12 EST, 26 April 2015 | Updated: 15:44 EST, 26 April 2015

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Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong took aim at Barack Obama and Washington's elite when she hosted the Correspondents' Dinner.

The comedian famous for her portrayal of 'Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With at a Party' started off Saturday's fete by saying that 'it feels right to have a woman follow President Obama, doesn't it?'.

She continued with a barrage of jokes skewering the president's inner circle and assembled media, including Hillary Clinton and NBC at the annual event dubbed the 'nerd prom'.

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Cecily Strong, (center) the Saturday Night Live cast member and host of the White House Correspondents Dinner, skewered Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Republican hopefuls during her 20-minute speech

One of Strong's best jokes poked fun at both the president and police brutality, when she said Obama's graying hair 'is so white now it can talk back to the police'

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Cecily Strong lays into the Washington Hilton and Secret Service

'I took Amtrak here. It was way more luxurious than I thought. Did you know they have massage seats on there? All you have to do is sit in front of Joe Biden,' she said.

She continued lambasting the DC elite by poking fun at the events location, according to NBC.

'It’s an honor to be here at the Washington Hilton . . . is something a prostitute might say to a congressman.'

'I bet when the president walked in tonight and saw the bell hops, he probably thought, ‘Finally, some decent security.’

She pivoted from her joke about recent Secret Service lapses to speaking about a series of episodes of alleged police brutality toward African-Americans.

Strong said that the president security force is 'the only law enforcement organization in the country that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.'

She also said that Obama's graying hair 'is so white now it can talk back to the police'.

Saying that she 'would never endorse someone I don't play on SNL', Strong spent much of her speech riffing on the Clinton family.

Cecily Strong takes aim at President Obama over ISIS

The comedian made media outlets assembled promise not to report on Hillary Clinton's appearance because it was 'not journalism', and poked fun at foreign donation to the Clinton Foundation

Strong said that Michelle Obama (left) was the 'most important person in the room', but that her garden would be turned into an above ground pool by Bill Clinton

'Let’s talk about the most important person in the room, my leader: Michelle Obama. Now Michelle, you take care of that garden while you can. In 18 months, you know Bill is turning that thing into an above-ground pool'.

After making media outlets promise not to report about Hillary's appearance, Strong also said that US's tense relationship with Israel could be fixed if the Middle Eastern country 'made a generous donation to the Clinton Foundation'.

Republicans eyeing for the presidency in 2016 also came under fire during the annual event, with Senator Ted Cruz being called the exact opposite of Obama, 'a Canadian Latino who will never be president'.

'Jeb Bush is probably in the race. The presidential race, not the Hispanic race,' she said, referencing his checking 'Hispanic' on a voter registration form in 2009.

However, the comedian went after other figures beyond politicians, taking shots at the media executives seated in the audience.

'BuzzFeed is here, but I could show you a listicle of 17 reasons why they shouldn’t be,' she said.

'USA Today is here, of course, they’re only here because they were slipped under the hotel door. That’s USA Today, unless today is Saturday or Sunday'.

She touched on the media's biggest scandal over the past year with a quick quip at her own network.

'And what can I say about Brian Williams?” Strong asked.

'Nothing, because I work for NBC,' she said.