Emmy Award-winning actress Allison Janney reprised her role as C.J. Cregg, the White House Press Secretary on The West Wing, in the press briefing room on Friday. The surprise appearance comes a day before the White House Correspondents Dinner, the annual event in which the commander-in-chief becomes the comedian-in-chief and delivers a speech jam-packed with self-deprecating jokes and digs at friends and foes on both sides of the aisle. While the actress made some inside jokes from The West Wing behind the podium — like explaining that the real press secretary Josh Earnest had to get a root canal, something that happened to her character — she also had a serious message to share.