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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:21 PM
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White House correspondents dinner speaker: Rich Little! Sure to outdo Colbert
Edited on Tue Jan-23-07 04:22 PM by MnFats
Isn't this just incredible? Could they have picked a safer comic for Bush?

from the New Yorker:

"This year, no such insults will be directed at the President, because the correspondents’ association has hired as entertainment the impressionist Rich Little, who calls himself “basically a Republican,” and whose jokes are reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s, though without the edge.
The decision to retain Little’s services has raised, as they say, a host of troubling questions.....":


full item:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/070129ta_talk_goldberg
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:24 PM
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1. I expect the same thing Colbert did, but aimed at BushCo oppo. n/t
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:26 PM
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2. Little, et. al., are not bright enough to pull it off.
We're talking about a comedic "lead balloon."

I'll love to see the video to see how many journalists FAKE laughing. ;)
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:36 PM
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13. You're right. I guess I should have said "an attempt" to do the
same thing. Which many of them will find utterly hilarious, but which will, in fact, be utterly lame, but that won't stop them from going around sayingwat a great send-up it is.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:27 PM
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3. I didn't know the guy was still alive.
Man, this is really on the cutting edge.

I guess they couldn't find Henny Youngman's phone number.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:27 PM
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4. I guess Don Ho was unavailable.
Edited on Tue Jan-23-07 04:27 PM by IanDB1


I still don't know why they didn't ask Shields and Yarnell.
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Bobbie Jo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:29 PM
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8. !
LOL :rofl:
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:27 PM
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5. Too bad Red Skelton
is gone. He would have been perfect. He would never hurt Li'l Boots' feelings.
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:42 PM
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17. Red Skelton was a true American comic genius, imo.
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:27 PM
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6. The White House Correspondents: with a handful of exceptions,
a group of sold-out hacks.
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The Count Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:28 PM
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7. On behalf of Dennis Miller, I must protest!
They didn't quite reach the bottom of the pool on irrelevant...
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:39 PM
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16. good one!
:rofL:
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:29 PM
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9. Rich Little used to be funny.
In 1968. Today, he's as boring as last week's tuna casserole.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:44 PM
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21. I think that's unfair. It's not his fault that he was selected this year.
No one could top Colbert last year, and this has to beat the Bedford, Pennsylvania PTA Annual Meeting, or wherever else Rich would have been booked otherwise.
He is a talented guy, but if they wanted an "old timer," I would have preferred Mark Russell.
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:50 PM
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24. Unfair perhaps, but I haven't seen or heard much from him lately.
Last I saw of him, he was still doing many of the same tired old jokes he'd used for years. I feel sorry for anyone who has to follow Colbert's performance, as it was perfection, but as you said it beats the PTA meeting.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 05:00 PM
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25. Check out his appearance on Letterman, http://www.richlittle.com/
It's worth a look. He is a very talented impressionist, and I enjoyed him immensely 30 years ago, when we were both a tad(?) younger. He provided genuine laughs then, and so I hate to see him so disparaged now, even though I understand the criticism. Anyway, the video shows both that he is talented and terribly dated, but in this world of right-wing haters, I hold a soft spot for someone who has never done me harm, and actually provided a few good laughs. Thanks, Rich.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:30 PM
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10. Ha! I bet he gets in a least one good one!
I wouldn't bet on Rich just following a script and playing nice! Then again he is a lot older now then when I used to watch him as a kid. Maybe he has mellowed out alot. I'm gonna watch, just because. :)
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 05:25 PM
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26. Isn't he the one who leaked they told him to go easy?
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Phredicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 06:09 PM
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27. I'm far too lazy to track it down, but I'm pretty sure that's what he said.
It'd be hilarious if after all this he absolutely cut loose and went to town on Flight Suit Boy, but I'm not holding my breath.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:31 PM
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11. Isnt Rich Little Canadian?
:shrug:
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:32 PM
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12. Too little, too late--he'll come across as a total sellout.
Edited on Tue Jan-23-07 04:41 PM by rocknation
Besides, what about Dub and Laura insulting US with WMDs-under-his-desk and milking male horses jokes?

So it's been close to a year since The Great Colberting, huh? How old is Rich Little, anyway?

:headbang:
rocknation
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cdnwannabe Donating Member (178 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:50 PM
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23. Believe it or not, Little is ONLY 68 years old....
and yes, he was born in Ottawa.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:37 PM
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14. Could they have picked a safer comic for Bush?
Yep.

Bob Hope.
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:37 PM
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15. Remember how shocking Colbert's set was at the time?!
What a difference a year makes.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:43 PM
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18. They realy should have picked David Cross. n/t
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:43 PM
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19. Wink Martindale must be too busy filming those Orbitz commercials
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:43 PM
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20. let's see. this is the W.House CORRESPONDENCE dinner - and they become
even less brave than they have been over the past 6 yrs? It is hard to imagine a less deserving group of yellow-bellied, POS that the White House Whores who pretend to be real journalists.

stenographers would have more backbone.
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 04:46 PM
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22. Maybe he'll make jokes about Barney
and maybe even a really cutting edge joke about Cheney going quail hunting.

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Kickin_Donkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 06:58 PM
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28. I can hardly wait till he breaks out his Tricky Dick personation ...
which was funny ... in 1972.
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 07:21 PM
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29. this weekend's SNL showed Little picking up from where Colbert left off
... and slamming the White House. (I don't think that will actually happen, but it was sure fun to fantasize!)
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