It is only midway through the day and the Washington Post already has up posts about “pro tips” for surviving the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, a growing list of all the celebrities slated to attend, a Vox-style explainer, a treatise on the ethics of the affair, and a post debunking “myths” about it.

Right. Everything about the self-congratulatory event has pretty much been said in years past. Though that apparently hasn’t stopped WaPo—or a former Politico reporter, who made a documentary about it that breathlessly promises to “expose a private world of excess and extravagance that is like nothing you’d ever imagine.”

No, actually we can imagine it. As Matt put it last year:

It’s the one time of year that D.C. essentially turns into a facsimile Hollywood, with status-aspiring Washingtonians risking lives and limbs just to be in the same massive ballroom with somebody who stars in a middling ABC hospital drama.

When he politely asked someone dressed up in a suit and tie at an event that was sponsored just to watch the thing, he responded: “We want to look like we’re going somewhere important after this.”

Rather than rehashing all the reasons why we should stop fetishizing the dinner, let’s just watch this Funny or Die sketch of Veep‘s Tim Simons getting ready for it instead. As it turns out, celebrities are just as pained by the WHCD as everyone else—they just have to make awkward small talk, too. The clip is packed full of gems like:

• “Oh gosh, you make me laugh congressman other white guy … I just love coming to this dinner because I just think the politicians are super interesting and I’m not just here because there’s an open bar.”
• “No, just because I’m tall doesn’t mean that I play in Obama’s pickup basketball games.”
• “Oh, you know someone like Jonah? That’s because everyone in this town is a monster… Yes, I know I live in LA. We’re all monsters, too.”
• “It’s truly nice to meet you governor-I-hated-gay-people-until-six-months-ago.”
• “I work for HBO, but I’m not a cable provider. I can’t just give you a log in, no.
• “No, I don’t know Amy Poehler. That’s a different show.”