I don’t go to those big annual parties where television news anchors and celebrities and network presidents rub elbows while choking down mass-produced hotel ballroom meals before darting off to the Bloomberg party. For starters, I never get an invite. But aside from that, they seem like pretty unappealing events.

But it might be worth investigating how to sneak your way into next year’s Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner, with the announcement that Louis C.K., the acerbic and altogether brilliant comedian, is headlining the event.

For those familiar with the work of one Louis Szekely, you know I could ramble on for thousands of words. For the rest of you, may I recommend donning some headphones and pulling up some Louis C.K. routines on YouTube to get you through the workweek? He’s also the force behind the brilliant FX series Louie, which might be the funniest show on TV in, well, a long damn time.

Then again, Louis C.K. isn’t really known for political humor, telling GQ earlier this year that he regretted an epically profane rant against Sarah Palin that earned him the ire of conservative activists. Most of his routines deal with the everyday inanities of being a middle-aged parent and trying to survive the daily raft of oddities that come that way. It’s all hilarious, and wonderfully dark. No surprise that C.K. is consistently praised as the best comedian working today.

He’s innovative, too, releasing his most recent stand-up show as a $5 Web video rather than a more traditional HBO special.

But the RTCA Dinner isn’t like its gaudier big brother—the White House Correspondents Association Dinner—in its typical choice of comedic guest. In recent years, the radio and television event has featured Daily Show correspondents John Hodgman and Larry Wilmore, while the WHCA fête has gone with safer options like Jay Leno and Seth Meyers. (Its one brush with danger, Stephen Colbert in 2006, hasn’t been attempted since.)

Jay McMichael, a CNN cameraman who is organizing the dinner—which will be held June 8, 2012—wasn’t able to say much on the record this morning, but said the RCTA wanted to “[shake] things up” from the typical current events-focused nature of the roasts at these affairs. Like President Obama, who usually attends the dinner (though last year the White House sent Vice President Joe Biden), Louis C.K. is the father of two daughters, both of whom figure prominently in his monologues. (Perhaps they could exchange parenting tips.)

So, while it’s not surprising that the RTCA landed a big name for its annual soiree, it’s notable that they went with someone who won’t spend half an hour cracking wise about vice-presidential malapropisms and Congressional spray-tans.