Trevor Noah will be the entertainer for the 2022 White House Correspondents' dinner

• Trevor Noah will be the entertainer at this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
• Noah, a comedian and political commentator, has hosted "The Daily Show" since 2015.

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

Noah will be the face of the longstanding event, which is usually held once a year, but was paused at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.

Steven Portnoy, the association's president and a reporter for CBS News Radio, praised Noah's selection in a statement.

"Trevor is an incredible talent who keeps us laughing — and thinking — four nights a week," he said. "We can't wait for him to help bring our 100-year Washington tradition 'Back to Abnormal.'"

Former President Donald Trump didn't attend the event during his White House tenure, and it is unclear whether President Joe Biden will participate in the festivities, where in the past, politicians would let their hair down in a departure from the more staid traditions of Washington, DC.

The last dinner with a commander-in-chief in attendance was in 2016, when then-President Barack Obama gave his comedy routine and performed a memorable mic drop at the end of his remarks.

When Trump took office in 2017, he shunned the event, which was a culmination of him being mocked by Obama and then-"Saturday Night Live" comedian Seth Meyers during the association's 2011 dinner, and a notoriously hostile relationship that he developed with the press during his first presidential campaign.

The association's last dinner was held in 2019, when the historian and author Ron Chernow gave remarks in lieu of the more boisterous comedic roasts of years past.